Ask me about the word cockamamie
Cockamamie means ridiculous or implausible. About 100 years ago temporary tattoos were all the rage in candy, gum packs and crackerjacks and kids struggled to pronounce the French word to describe the trend decalcomanie but cockamamie stuck around.
A few days ago Rae Armantrout brought the word out of storage when I read her poem “Uncanny Valleys” and now it's in my head.
Here's a snippet of it:
They say appearances can be deceiving.
They say essence is cockamamie.
They fall back
on function.
Function serves the gut;
the gut serves no one.
Try to use cockamamie in a sentence in the next seven to ten working days. Even if you don’t say it out loud.
Ask me about the blossoming cherry
give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses but don’t give me your cockamamie inquiries about where you could possibly park your cars on campus to look at the blossoming cherry trees.
Ask me about “INQUIRY”
INQUIRY magazine comes from The University of Texas at Arlington. A few copies of the current issue arrived at the mothership last week only to be chucked into the recycling bin because of their insufficient addresses. The cover photo of a flood-stage river in Texas got my attention with its textured tactile fancy pants printing. So I peeled a few off and saved them for something. That something turned into these ISRU postcards.
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