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Community News Important Update: Transition from pathetic.org to eMuse.org - 03/16/2025 by Gavin M Roy After years of intermittent development, eMuse is almost ready to launch. As part of this transition, pathetic.org will be shutdown and will redirect to eMuse.org. What you need to know: * No accounts will be automatically created * No content will be automatically transferred * When creating your new eMuse account, you'll have the option to import your data from pathetic.org We look forward to welcoming you to the new platform. Hello, Survivors of 2020! - 01/03/2021 by V. Blake Please check my post out in the General forum when you have a moment. Thanks! Stay Healthy - 03/18/2020 by V. Blake Hope you and yours are well. A Congratulations to Leonard M Hawkes - 03/27/2019 by V. Blake ..who just published his first volume of poetry! Entitled Leaves from my Box Elder, it comes just in time for the 150th anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike. So, like the title says--congrats, Leonard! Older News

Poem of the Day for 03/26/26 Die by Philip F De Pinto You must you must Before you turn to rust The assumed gold of you Must die die die With the second the moment the year As with the tear streaking down your cheek Its sap dried out You however Fortunate you Will not die with it You in fact will rise From its ash Arrived that ultimate ship Cash in the chip Live live live However you can Until you cannot And when you cannot Permit a new second a new moment a new year A new world To rise from an ash Entirely unknown Uniquely your own And when you have made Your proper or improper exit Don’t stand around Don’t permit the ghost of you To loiter waiting for What’s due you You will rue the day If you do So don’t Don’t stick around For another round For more more more of the same What for? Remove the anchor From the fixed game Drift as high as you can As much as a poem will let you Up up up Until you run out of up And must sift down to the dregs Which will be fine by you To come home To point A Where it all began And will continue to begin Always and forever And the additional ever For effect 01/02/2025 Visit Philip F De Pinto's Library Die Copyright © 2026

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