Member Poem

Yours truly riddled with social anxiety,
hence (billy me) he will idle away
December 31st, 2022
sequestered (with the missus)
hunkered down in his mancave
while madding crowd 
entertains reckons partition of time
into seconds, minutes, days,
weeks, months, years...
as artificial man/woman made construct
as convenient modus operandi
invented to measure motion
of the sun, water, and sand
additionally to keep track
of quotidian activities.

December thirty first
two thousand twenty two countdown
will unsuspectingly, transparently
and seamlessly stream into
simultaneously linkedin January first
two thousand and twenty three,
whereby the Ball
comprising a geodesic sphere,
12 feet in diameter,
and weighing 11,875 pounds.

The aforementioned Ball covered
with a total of 2,688
Waterford Crystal triangles
bolted to 576 LED models
attached to its aluminum frame.

Among the triangles,
192 new crystals dedicated
to this year’s Gift of Love theme.

NBC will kick off the new year
with A Toast to 2022!
starting at 8pm EST,
hosted by TODAY co-hosts Hoda Kotb
and Jenna Bush-Hager.
The special will feature appearances
by fellow New Year's host Miley Cyrus,
along with Dolly Parton,
George Lopez, Martha Stewart,
Kenan Thompson and more.

Disinclination regarding tradition
to make resolutions stance
adopted courtesy yours truly.

Though such proclamation
may smack of high treason
no matter convenience to season
and ideal time to leaven existence,
I discern no rhyme nor reason.

Back in the day
listening to Guy Lombardo,
a Canadian-American bandleader,
violinist, and hydroplane racer
formed the Royal Canadians in 1924
with his brothers Carmen,
Lebert, Victor, and other musicians
from his hometown of
London, Ontario Canada
popularizing Auld Lang Syne
courtesy eighteenth-century
Scots poet Robert Burns.

Those very poignant moments,
when stroke of midnight
ushered in new year
(I counted, notched and tabulated
sixty two since mine birth where
decades now seemingly
flitted by at light speed)
as yours truly a doubting Thomas
disbelief regarding artificial construct,
nevertheless he ultimately, obliviously,
and haphazardly cruises along
space/time continuum at quite a clip.

Primitive paradigms witnessed,
sabotaged, nixed by the equivalent
of caveman version qua Elon Musk,
(who snubbed squalor)
punctuated equilibrium inadvertently
presaged, revolutionized, and
upended courtesy wheelwrights
millenniums before mankind
scrutinized cosmic sights
only from storied wuthering heights
swirling maelstrom analogous to dog fights
sans gods precipitating terrestrial blights,
whence thus spake Zarathustra
predicated upon Friedrich Nietzsche's
theory when cosmic consciousness alights.

E'er since Pope Gregory XIII effectively
(furnished, generated, and
instituted his holy mojo circa October 1582)
introducing Gregorian calendar
whisking Julian calendar out of vogue
with fair vanity
approximately four hundred
thirty nine years ago
chroniclers of time - mostly
religious Norwegian bachelor farmers
casually referred to brethren as bro

invocations ejaculated sometimes prematurely -
that thar comment haint no fallacy),
which echoed across
Lake Wobegon, said incantations
devout followers among populace
did likewise parrot and crow
generation after generation
whereupon enigmatic, dogmatic, charismatic
monk native to Burma
stoked one after another ego

synthesizing interpretation to explain
life on Earth and phenomena at large
geocentric theory did ebb and flow
amazingly enough maintaining accuracy
with marginal probability of error
precision parsing seconds, minutes, hours...

would only tolerate absolute zero
variation regarding prediction
of weeks, months, years...
as sophistication of civilization did grow
allowing, enabling, and providing

jolly fellow bellowing ho... ho... ho
could make his round the world wide web
timely trek linkedin with timepiece
assembled with B Corporation approval.

certification of "social and
environmental performance"
a private certification of for-profit companies,
distinct from legal designation
as Benefit corporation.

The above plug
an unsolicited commentary
regarding San Francisco, California
based eco friendly
and socially conscious company
and employer of eldest daughter,
a biomedical engineering
University of Pennsylvania alumna.