Ferris Swill

Corndogs
fer·ris swill(fĕr′·ĭs swĭl)
noun
fair food, or drink, especially unhealthy
fare ;  e.g., cotton candy, funnel cakes, etc .

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[ After George W. G. Ferris ( 1859-96 ), U.S. engineer /
ME swilen < OE swilian IE base * swel –, to devour > swallow 2 . ]

CottonCandy

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Damn Nature : [5] Vesuvius

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A moment of terror frozen
In statues of ashfall,
A pyroclastic arrest
Of metabolism .

Entire settlements drown
In pumice and tephra,
Screams cut short
By the shifting matrix
Of travelling particles
Adrift .

Volcanic missiles and cinders
Of Hell rain down
On Herculaneum and Pompeii :
Thousands in the everyday end
Abruptly, the snipped by
The Fates .

The black skies brood over
The wake below, the sheet lightning
Freezing the wasteland smoke
With every bleak flash .

Shears

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Damn Nature : [6] Sans

Shades of former selves in the caverns below
Mill around the Lethe and the Styx, abstract .
Coda for the ages of man from Shakespeare
   Settle in ebbing .

Metabolic failings announce onsetting
Aging filching life from the cells and tissues :
Fading sight, and silence replaced with phantom
   Chirping of crickets .

Damn_NationD

Souvenirs of memory counter symptoms,
Leading one to question the worth of life ;
Databases adding up bits of selfhood—
   Proof of existence

More alive than life, that is only machine :
Longing spirit acting despite the laws of
Thermodynamics that slow the spinning gears
   Toward a standstill .

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PreSamble

WeThePeople2

We the PEOPLE
Of the United States—that’s [ US ] :
Order the formulation of a more

Perfect Union, eblish Justice,
Prescribe domestic Tranquility,
Provide for common Defense,
Promote general Welfare, and
Prehend blessings of Liberty
for ourselves and our Posterity,

Do ordain and instripe this
Constitution for the United
State of America—
A Law for the Lay of the Land .

StarStripes

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