Mama Earth
While she slept we plundered.
Clever children, we thought. We are getting away
with murder.
She stirred in her sleep, sending up
earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, and drought.
Did the dinosaurs know this fear?
or even those before, that she didn’t bother to record?
Mama Earth can take care of herself.
It is only we who will die.
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13 Non-Words
More Capcha fun. These are all taken from those thingies you have to fill in on some blogs to tell the program you are a human.
1. alone – something not to get from a shark. What? You mean it’s a real word? Oh.
2. spers – that cowboy sure likes his spers.
3. bignest – like what an ostrich would need, or the multiple-marriage thing?
4. pantsles – to be half necked.
5. littersee – good at reading. That or something to do with a cat box.
6. zations – when you get all this stuff going on, like realizations and idolizations, and inclinations.
7. gardess – a cross between a deity and someone who protects. “The gardess is guarding the garden for us.”
8. arstfull – with skill, especially while drunk. “His singing is very arstfull.”
9. tranne – “The tranne kept a rolling down the tracks.”
10. stabl – solid use of a knife.
11. frize – “my hair is always so frize.”
12. seextra – seeing more than you should.
13. angeri – to be mad at someone. “I was so angeri!”
Ah Maria, She Must Direct Society Too
When we left off, Mr. Al had just explained the ins and outs of Queen Maria Theresa’s expectations for her diplomat, Kaunitz.
Although the faults in Kaunitz’s foreign affairs logic would take some time to become evident,other matters closer to home quickly showed, or should have, that a command from the Queen didn’t necessarily fix problems. Maria had gotten a bee in her bonnet concerning public morals. It wasn’t that public morals had suddenly declined, but her husbands bad habits hadn’t changed and she had to take it out on somebody.
Acrobatic Singers
These ladies leave me astounded, and as someone who could once rotate from doing the splits with the right foot forward to doing them with the left forward without lifting off the floor, I don’t impress easy.
Microwaved Fish
Another quick and easy “recipe”. You take a frozen fish fillet like they sell in single serving packs or large packages with each piece individually sealed in plastic. Put it in a flat, microwave safe container. Rub with garlic.
Cook in bursts of on minute on and one minute off for two to four rounds, depending on your microwave. Drizzle with lemon juice and sprinkle with pepper. That’s all it takes.
Rolling in the Dough
Jill: Jack! Where are you, Jack? Jaaaaaack!
That man is driving me up the wall! First he goes to an all night poker game, then comes home horizontal and accuses ME of laying down on the job. He probably lost all his money, though Uncle Ted insists he’s rolling in the dough and didn’t have any trouble covering all his bets. Knowing him, he’s collapsed on a cold floor right now and needs a blanket to cover him.
Jaaaaack! Where are you?
Oh!
It just figures. You really do have it covered.
Today’s theme is covered
Previously in Jack and Jill: Perspective
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Suzie’s House 160: Old Times
Drew took the joint from Dave.
“This isn’t going to mess me up like crack, is it?”
“No. No, man. I’ve been doing it for weeks now, and I’m fine.” Dave spread his arms in a look-me-over-for-yourself gesture.
Drew made an effort to ignore the trash and grime on the floor of the van all around the man, the stench, and all the little signs of paranoia that crept into Dave’s comments in the chatroom for RamirezRules.
