SAD BOY DEPENDS ON LOLA .   Many days he doesn’t feel like the ole rise and shine, and most likely would rarely get out of bed if not for her .   Lola is his protectress .   She prods him onward for their daily travels of new adventure .   Like a cherub with a flaming sword, she shields him from the riffraff in the alleyways .   Sad Boy does not like people either .

  A bit peckish one day, Lola gets trapped and taken away .   Sad Boy falls apart ;  depressed .   Fortunately, the humans notice and set Lola free . Reunited—Sad Boy recovers and looks happier every day .

* Based on a YouTube story from The Dodo | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyUlM1RAGUE

Across the yellow field with the drifting stalks
Stalks the amber lioness smeared like fire .
Fire is savannah and spirit beasts smoke,
Smoke-shifting zebras pen emergent tales .
Tails flash in the boiling haze of struggle,
Struggle for another orange morning,
Mourn the quick silence of sunset red .

Red blood lullabies tawny cubs to sleep :
Sleep falls misty like Arctic-dark moon drops
Dropping in measured dosage, lifting waves .
Waving ghost sails carry the bark to sea—
See the night tussle where light streams across .

*[ WSB ]_.

A cadre of international scientists plans
An updated transmission to extraterrestrials :
Binary code beamed by waves of radio
[ Universal across all intelligence levels ] ;
Mathematica simplex: zero/one, black/white, yes/no—
And this is how the message ran:

– Bases, binary and decimal; prime numbers + the largest prime
– Mathematical operations | add, subtract, multiply, divide |
– Most common elements | carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur | .
– Deoxyribonucleic structures
– Solar system’s position using globular clusters
– Physics of particles
– Algebraic articles
– Earth composition and characteristics
– Different trademarks humanistic
– Position of Earth in solar depiction
– Geographical survey
– Exponential operations
– An invitation to reciprocate

Not the first intentional heavenly missives ;
A century of casting out unintentionals—
Just reaching the shallows :   not even a nibble .