“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
―Philip Freneau
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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?
Archilochus
Alas! my foul Flash Player again has failed. This is at least the fifth such time this year. 'Twould do no good, or else I would have wailed And railed against the Powers we must fear.
"And who are they?" you ask. I cannot say –– Nameless, faceless, hidden as they be. In plush palatial suites on us they prey Causing men to risk their sanity
Dealing with accurs'd upgrades eternal Might a peptic ulcer cause to dwell In the stress'd digestive tract infernal Making rounds quotidian a hell.
The blessings of modernity are mixed Had I been Czar, I would have had them nixed!
~ FreeThinke
When an irksome problem lands, Don't think too much on it. Instead, just use your head and hands To fashion a new sonnet.
Making the best of a bad situation. Shame someone doesn't push your software onto your computer every day like they do mine. But then, THAT opens an entirely different can of worms...
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Alas! my foul Flash Player again has failed.
This is at least the fifth such time this year.
'Twould do no good, or else I would have wailed
And railed against the Powers we must fear.
"And who are they?" you ask. I cannot say ––
Nameless, faceless, hidden as they be.
In plush palatial suites on us they prey
Causing men to risk their sanity
Dealing with accurs'd upgrades eternal
Might a peptic ulcer cause to dwell
In the stress'd digestive tract infernal
Making rounds quotidian a hell.
The blessings of modernity are mixed
Had I been Czar, I would have had them nixed!
~ FreeThinke
When an irksome problem lands,
Don't think too much on it.
Instead, just use your head and hands
To fashion a new sonnet.
};^)>
Making the best of a bad situation. Shame someone doesn't push your software onto your computer every day like they do mine. But then, THAT opens an entirely different can of worms...
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