the sieve and the sand hit 2000 posts today (just now thanks to my help), which on my recollection is about 1998 poems. Thats a buttload of poetry (please don’t get hung up on the semantics of the word, the truth is a boat probably can hold substantially more than a butt – that, however is why this is a poetry blog, because words are inherently more awesome than just words and a buttload IS more than a boatload even though physically cramming a whole boatload into a butt is probably nothing more than fodder for a sieve poem).

the point is, the group of gentleman(women) who have been writing for the sieve have each grown substantially more talented over the nearly two years since the blog began. and its about time we get some recognition. my plan for this recognition is two fold.

1) we do nothing and sit around like a good artist should, sucking our thumbs, rocking in fetal positions in the corner wondering when someone ‘important’ is going to report us to the Atlantic Monthly at which point one of us (obviously the most talented one – whom i shall leave unnamed as though it’s all obvious to each of us who that is) will receive a large book deal and probably a poet laureate for some second-class first-world nation and then invite the rest of us to lunch – inevitably leading to our fame and wealth etc etc….

and: (I know these seem mutually exclusive but again, don’t get hung up on the semantics)

2) somehow garner more fans for our lovely website on facebook and hope to spread the word that way or through twitter or something of the sort. we need to brag more. or at least just write more about how awesome we genuinely think the sieve is because it is awesome. not always. i’ll admit that i spit out more crap poems than most of you combined, but it leads to the occasional brilliance. and this blog has always been more about being prolific than be proficient. and then this brilliance grows with time and our crap to brilliance ratio has slowly but dramatically grown in favor of brilliance

this is a good thing.

now the sieve and the sand has risen to the top of awesomeness (there is a scale, we are at the top, directly above chuck norris and penut butter in a tube) and since there is no digg.com for poetry (please someone out there get on it) we have no way of being regularly recognized as invincibly awesome as we are except through the help of wordpress’ occasional promotion to the top of the poetry section via computer algorithm.

i’m rambling.

gentlemen. we are the giants. we bare the shoulders on which the greats have stood. and i for one am going to take this sitting down.

writing.

on my computer.

regularly.

because i effing love writing poetry.

thank you for joining me. lets bring the sieve to 3, 5, and 10 thousand in glory.

who’s with me?