*Hamilcar

CatSolar

Hamilcar, somnolent Prince of the City of Books—
Thou guardian nocturnal ! Like that Divine Cat
Who combated the impious in Heliopolis—
In the night of the great combat—thou dost defend
From vile nibblers those books which the old savant
Acquired at the cost of his slender savings and
Indefatigable zeal . Sleep, Hamilcar, softly
As a sultana, in this library, that shelters
Thy military virtues; for verily in thy
Person are united the formidable aspect
Of a Tartar warrior and the slumbrous grace of a
Woman of the Orient . Sleep, thou heroic
Voluptuous Hamilcar, while awaiting that
Moonlight hour in which the mice will come forth to dance
Before the Acta Sanctorum of the learned Bollandists !

* 2nd Paragraph of The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard by Anatole France as translated by Lafcadio Hearn and versified by :

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Rich People Be Like

ScorchedEarth

Dragons gliding gold coins greedily closer with scoop of sinuous tail, the scales hissing just like the sliding wealth, a tendril of smoke residual from the nostril torch, insouciantly drifting into sleep, while the world beyond the castle keep wails, surrounded by the still smoldering havoc the reptiles have wrought in scorch and sulfur.

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LEFT : Leaving the Presidency on a High Note

On the December Jobs Report :

256 thousand new jobs
In December ; 16.6 million jobs :
Admin total—the only in history
To create jobs every single month ;

Despite inheriting an economic crisis,
The economy was built back
From the middle out and bottom up .

RIGHT :
* Joe Biden’s fiscal time bomb is set to
Explode just in time for Trump to take office

* New York Post headline ( 4 Jan 25 )

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*Tiny Chicken Newspaper : Vol 16 | Iss 8

Chickens red, black or white
Roaming outside in open pastures,
Romping through the forests,
Foraging the grasses ;

Roosting in a peaceful nook,
Mindful of an internal clock .
Crickets tap their wings in song,
As the chickens tuck in theirs ;
The light dims to clucks and coos .

The cock crows .
Peppy Patsy lays an egg,
Sunshine inside .

* https://vitalfarms.com/vital-times-online/

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The Rule of Holes

HoleSquare

The Rule of Holes :
Stop digging .

The pile of potential energy
Increases . The probability of
Escape diminishes .

Cavernous shade :
Crack the crust covered in dust
Until the mantel melts the
Metallic blade,

The crack of ash
Like a breaking backbone .

Fade into the catacomb
Dint of decades and not a
Hint of golden core—
Just more dust .

Past table dampness,
The holed soul
Flows in lava lampness,
Falling low enough
To rise again,

And find an exit from the cavity
In transit at the source of gravity .

EarthLayers

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Cartoon Coins

“ Lisa the Iconoclast ” *
/ Two schoolteachers discuss :

Mrs . Krabappel :

MKrabappel

Embiggens ? Hmm,
Never heard that word
Before I moved to Springfield .

Ms . Hoover :

MHoover

Don’t know why .
It’s a perfectly cromulent word .

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