gmorning,gnight

introduction

I wanted to you you good morning.

I wanted to say goodnight.

I started to write these on twitter,

A way of being polite.

I'm really quite hooked on the twitter,

They should take my phone out and lock it.

The biggest distraction for someone like me?

An audience up in my pocket.

So i start the day with a greeting.

And end it with a night variation.

It safeguards my evenings and weekends at home,

To sign off, a mini vacation.

The greetings are sometimes flirtatious,

Or cheeky, or weirdly specific.

They're pulled from my life or my brain or my thoughts,

Terrific'ly twitter prolifie.

I don't have a book of quotations

Or wisdom i pull from the shelf;

Most often the greetings i wish you

Are the greetings i wish myself.

So if i write"relax" then i'm nervous,

Or if i write "cheer up" then i'm blue.

I'm writing that i wish somebody would say, then switching the pronoun to you.

And after a few years of greetings,

They started to vary in tone;

And people said "Lin, your gmornings and gnights

Are the nicest things in my phone."

Now i get to tweets like "this saved me"

Or often "I need this reminder,"

You tell me, "i printed this out and i keep it

Around, on my desk, in my binder."

So you asked "will you make a book, please?"

I replied, "Oh consider it done."

Then i reached out to Kassandra tidland 

Who lit'rally RT's my best T's for fun.

And speaking of best T's, and besties,

There's besties I've made through my writing.

Among them is polymath Jonathan sun,

His drawings and words so inviting.

Then we sat down together and made this;

It's the book that you hold in your hands.

You can open it at any moment or page

With the hope you find  something that lands.

And it's nice to have things to hold on to,

Some kindness right here, within sight.

You can read this whenever you want to.

It will be here.gmorning. gnight