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"The best part of this photo...is the slogan 'American workers first' on the banner observed by troops who’ve been forced to pick up trash and do landscaping because the president on the banner illegally fired the American workers who did that."

"The Great Silence

Prithee, phantom — lend me pity,
while I, blind and weary, tend my
lamplight. Tell me truly, do you
sit before me, like some pilgrim,
waiting mutely in these shadows
for the warrant of my welcome?
Must I quell my heart to harken
for a whisper at my hearthside?
Must I shelter here at midnight,
like a boy who waves his lantern
from the shipmast on the ocean,
hoping that a star might flicker
in reply? Or have I summoned
my assassin, come to see me die?

*

Prithee, phantom — am I foolish
to be pleading for your pardons
while abiding by this gravesite?
Am I ghoulish from my hunger,
longing for a throng of chorists,
when, instead of forests, I scry
only barrens, where no song can
flourish? Am I meant to take my
lesson only from your muteness?
Do you tutor me while songless
in these tundras, where a brutal
hunter seeks, unseen, to slay me
for my flints and tinder? Do you
eye me from an eyrie, like a spy?

*

Prithee, phantom — reassure me
that my grieving has its witness.
Tell me, must I be the first slave
waking in a vacant death camp?
Must I be this frail thing aching
in a broken mousetrap? Dare I
fathom what has yet to smite me,
like some plague or famine, be it
falling moons or blasted atoms —
speak! I sigh, to break this silence,
all these beacons lit to make me
worthy to have earned a greeting.
Do not let me burn, unknowing
if no others hear me say: goodbye."

—Christian Bök via

A Trinity Riddle.

"I know everything costs a lot more now but at least it's also worse quality" —@im-all-id.me

SB 10.