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Boy and two-wheeled chariot
tore out of the backyard at three-thirty
bound for wherever handle bars and whim
would go.
Fresh, unfettered chasing god knows what
in a boys head on a windy roadmap,
Billy pumped and swerved and tore up the side
of Mrs. Baker's poor excuse for a raised bed
of blooming something or others--getting air--Yes!
And across the dirt lane, around the corner and gone.
Beads of dirty sweat
Can anyone really have "five-hundred friends" on Face Book of all places?
I use the popular social networking site as a way of communicating and staying in touch with young people I work with professionally, and with their parents. I also use Face Book a lot with many folks, young and not so young, within my faith community of Quakers. (I like to joke with New England Quakers by teasing our elders, saying, that before long, it will be a prerequisite of membership for aspiring Friends (Quakers) to have a Face Book account! But that's a story for another day.) In any case, just having these two main groups of people in my life can easily account for the numbers.
When it comes to computer use and online organization, I'm a categorizing and folders kind of guy, so it may come as no surprise to know that I also use the categorizing feature on FB to group my friend lists. (What? You didn't know that I initially added you to a category? Sorry. You're in my best best friends list...of course!) Anyway, recently I noticed that my total number of Face Book Friends was nearing five hundred, and I thought about awarding my 500th friend with some kind of a special, silly award, like an old keyboard dipped in chocolate or a 1992 bound, four-pound beginners manual of how to use AOL.
Now I'm sure someone might ask, is this guy
