Ideas for the coming year:
- Go line by line through one of my poetry manuscripts, using each line as the jumping-off point for a new poem.
- Compile and illustrate a Book of Missing Hours with old Via Negativa posts.
- Run for office.
- Use the Internet to rally support for a National Do Nothing Day on some date of no special significance, to change every year and be chosen by lot.
- Apply to a large foundation, or to the state arts council, for a grant to support Via Negativa.
- Become a stalker of a celebrity poet, such as Tess Gallagher or Rita Dove.
- Donate one of my kidneys to a needy Iraqi.
- Learn to paint by numbers.
- Run amok.
- Change my name to Chrysler.
- Set goals and continually strive to achieve them.
- Write a letter to somebody using actual pen and paper.
- Sing along with the CD.
- Poison pigeons in the park.
- Start a new religion using nothing but slogans and television advertising jingles from the 1970s.
- Crawl on my belly like a snake.
- Make hay while the sun shines.
- Persist in my delusions.
- Collect all my fingernails, toenails, shed hair, laundry lint and, if possible, shed skin for an eventual computer-assisted collage portrait of Jesus, or maybe Elvis.
- Submit something to somebody.
- Rock and roll.
- Acquire weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).
- Turn this blog over to its readers.
- Go on a date.
- Get a job.
(Ha ha! Just kidding with those last two there.)