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New Year's Eve 2022

New Year's Eve 2022 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.

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