Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Birthday

 she gave birth that day
and fed the thing on vinegar, absence, and disease.

"some day you may be president," she cooed

and the attending, that old singer, was pleased.
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10 comments:

  1. Ha. This is excellent. Made me smile (wryly).

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  2. How odd--and maybe true--to feed the thing that becomes president on such things. But from birth, a praise singer is there. (I hope I'm not reading too much into this little glimpse of life.)

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    1. I meant the devil, who began as a musically gifted angel.

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  3. How sweet the revenge perhaps - Jae

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  4. Sigh, I think I need an interpretation of this one!

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  5. Pleased indeed. A lot of truth, disease and vinegar applied as needed in a short four lines.

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  6. Ha! Reminds me of the quote by Cicero: “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.”

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  7. Scorching! And sad, too, that there are such "mothers."

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  8. Ouch! Birth of something unholy indeed!

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don't be stupid.