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Bookish frog gargoyle.

"Freeway Dawn

Stop-and-go traffic staggers along,
bumper-to-bumper past the brink of dawn
till the raw gaze of the ragged sun
   glances off fenders
   and glares on the hills.

The news-anchor’s voice keeps nattering on,
like the humming motor or the hissing fan,
and with rapid pulse an arresting tone
   pierces right through
   each portable cell—

There’s a public listing for this private hell.
But under the brush on bright-edged hills
where pattering feet turn poised by holes,
and high up in haze where hawk-shadows wheel,
   and cloudbanks mirror
   the colors of dawn,

and even where traffic inches and crawls,
another pulse measures patterns revealed
in balance of limb, in breath held still,
   when a moment freezes,
   moves, and is gone

like a sudden deer in the slanting sun."

--Paul Douglas Deane in Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival

gm, wen memecoin → 1/1 szn?

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"...at the end of his life he was reputedly both a staunch Catholic and a member of the Communist Party."