To all those who I regaled on Monday with my newly memorized “Song of the Master and Boatswain,” by W.H. Auden, I apologize for being an idjit and incorrectly pronouncing its title as “Master and BOAT’S-Wayne.”

Sigh … the Internet, forever helping to edumucate me, informs me that, of course, it is pronounced “Song of the Master and BO-sin.”

See this link:  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oCKcq14TEw

That’s “Bo-sin.”  You know … like when Bo Duke commits adultery.

This writer gig would be so much easier if I could only master this … ENGLISHY thing.

OH!  Amanda!!  That reminds me!!  I apologize also for utterly destroying your car today!!  (As the mood tonight is one of penitence, I figured I’d work that one in there …)  We can work out a payment plan, right?  And … I can, like … pay you in verse, or something … right?   

See this link, Honey: