With sincere apologies to Robert Frost

[adelheid_p]

I posted this in comments over in this thread on Patrick and Teresa Nielsen-Hayden's Making Light community blog but I wanted to preserve it here:

The Post not Made

Two posts diverged in a black mood,
And sorry I could not write both
And be one blogger, long I typed
And edited one as far as I could
To where it trolled on the Internet;

Then wrote the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was cheery and wanted air;
Though as for that the passing there
Had writ them really about the same

And both that morning equally lay
In font no keys had deleted back.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how post leads on to post,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two posts diverged one day, and I—
I wrote the one more positive,
And that has made all the difference.

Comments

[theyarnproject.livejournal.com]

Ah! This is super cool.

[adelheid-p.livejournal.com]

Thanks!