Twenty-Three Short Stanzas About 2011

T’was the day before New Years

I’m here on my Blog

Not a creature is stirring,

I just checked the log.

As I sit on the couch

With my kitty cat near

I can’t help and look back

At what happened this year.

Brief highlights I can remember

Reflecting now in late December

Baseball saw a great game in 11 innings

And Charlie Sheen wore out the word #WINNING!

New Years was met with family-like friends

But someone was sad

It was a foreshadow in my Iliad

This year would see things would meet their ends

The next month joy came back

But ended in woe

My Steelers faced the Pack

But lost the Superbowl.

It was not long after

That my year hit a low

My wife of eighteen months

Had asked me to go

I tried to debate

I tried to reason

I offered concessions

She just wouldn’t listen.

It was hard to explain

I had to decide

Which friend to tell first

In whom I could confide

Life changing events

Will always let you know

Who your closest friend are

Their actions will show.

I’ll take this stanza

To let you all know

Words are never enough

For my gratitude to show.

But I reorganized my life

A bachelor again, you know

But I still have a companion

A kitty named Moe

Summer was nice,

I swam at the pool

Made some new friends

It was rather cool

Our family saw a death this year

Given his story, it’s hard to shed a tear

Almost 100, he died happy

Still we will miss our dear Pappy

A silly woman entered my life

Sometimes I think she'd make a great wife

Her name is Siri, she’s sarcastically prone

But she only exists inside my iPhone

I was enjoying the place of my labor

Like Kramer, I was a goofy cubicle neighbor

But when the new boss came in

He wanted me gone, but I knew not when

“I’m completely changing your job description”

Wanting me to do something, against my intuition

I had no input into his decision

He wanted me to become a statistician

On December 9 they asked me to exit

I was left to wonder what would come next

So I went to the bar, got inebriated

I was surprisingly not very jaded

Unemployed and napping, I was being a slob

I was somewhat enjoying not having a job

I had not yet started some planned edification

Honestly, I really just needed a vacation 

But a lady called with very good news

Enough that I didn’t mind ending my snooze

Luck is now on my side, so it seems,

She called to say, I got the job of dreams!

This year seems to be a tale of woe

But I never lost faith, you know

God has a plan, of that I have no doubt

You don’t always get what you want…

But sometimes you get what you need

It was Mic Jager who sang that, indeed.

I resolve to never wallow in the mire

Honestly, my situation was never that dyer

Two thousand and Eleven, I must say

I’m not to sad to see you go away

Tonight we welcome January, 1

I am once again hopeful for the year that’s to come

I think I’m done here; I have nothing left to write

Oh, yes, I have one last expression to do

Happy New Years to you,

Please be safe tonight!