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lil  ·  3276 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What is the story behind your username?

My user name is palindromic too, also my name, also my daughter's name which is "aha". We will one day have a band called Aha and the Palindromes. I will be one of the pals. There's something self-assured about going both ways; and comforting about being the same, no matter what direction you go in, something sure, something steady, like your cat. A palindrome is confidence-building, like rhyming poetry.

Speaking of poems, a friend was going to build a poem with me, but he bailed out. Here's the beginning. Sorry jleopold I know this isn't the place for poetry, except that everywhere is the place for poetry:

She read the loneliest poem

It began like this:

“Last night for the first time

you told me you loved me less.”

I saw her mouth as she read,

wandering through desert sands

thirsty, lost, alone.

_refugee_ how did you get your name?