2.The Montgomery Blair High School newspaper
3.The principal of Montgomery Blair High School
4.The average intellectual man (French)
5.Poetic frenzy (Latin)
6.Either a Caesar or nothing (Latin)
7.I believe it because it is absurd (Latin). This is also the motto of Xmos University
8.The creator of Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation, for those of you living in a vacuum.
9.Wrote The Plague, a novel which helped inspire this poem.
10.Some Greek guy who has to push a boulder up a hill for eternity. Camus wrote some essay about him. Go look it up. . .
11.The English language edition of Poems Of The Day contains the word gravy. A translation of a foreign language edition contains the word eggnog. The translation cannot be checked because the edition was written in Old Low Xmosian, and the last person fluent in this language died 150 years ago. This edition contains eggnog only because it is funnier.
12.The original version of the poem only had four lines, but later and how it changed your life was added because otherwise the poem did not make as much sense.
13.This stand for Motor Vehicle Association in case you didn't know.
14.This is a parody of Montgomery Blair's Alma Mater and was originally included in the fine work Blazers by Jeff Hostetler.
15.This poem is supposed to be similar to the movie When Harry Met Sally. So, if you do not understand it, you probably haven't seen the movie, or do not know that trophic means feeding.
16.This poem is a parody of a visionary C&P Telephone commercial for "Repeat Call." Hey, just dial star sixty-six!
17.I've been told that the point of this poem is that nothing rhymes with orange and purple except for "16th century farm implements."
18.Teaches Physics in the magnet
19.There is a joke here, see if you can find it
20.This poem was written as a favor to Ms. Wiz. Rev. Xmos actually couldn't tell a combinatorial equation from a double integral.
21.Blair.
22.Inspired by a wonderful anti-drug assembly that was sponsored by Taco Bell and Pepsi.
23.A medieval philosopher. To paraphrase: without physics there would be no pleasure to sex and no children.
24.This poem was written by Isaac Asimov, who died recently. Besides writing great science fiction, mysteries, non-fiction, etc., Isaac Asimov also wrote great limericks.
25.This poem is written in a heroic couplet, the style that Chaucer used when writing Canterbury Tales.
26.This poem marked the return of the Poem of the Day after a hiatus that was spent advertising the sale of Xmos University T- Shirts (please see our special advertising section). Actually they should be here any day now . . . . .
27.This poem was written in celebration of the fact that the study hall bought a new set of colored markers.
28.This wonderful poem was found in Kevin Yeh's 9th grade (1988- 89) yearbook. The poem was placed there by Jon DeVilbiss.
29.The poets of the day are expressing their sorrow that the magnet sophomores are away at Wallop's Island this week (see poem from May 29, 1991). It also has something to do with the sophomores causing trouble in the computer lab.
30.This poem was written as a parody of a really strange piece of art that was placed in one of our school's courtyards, and its respective posted explanation. The poem was surrounded by squiggles and shapes in various colors. Unfortunately, we are unable to duplicate that here. So just imagine it.
31.This is a french translation of the original Poem of the Day. Notice how the poem still rhymes: riz rhymes with pieds. Well not exactly, but close enough. This demonstrates the power of the Poem of the Day because its message is not lost in the translation. It also proves that all great poems must rhyme.