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Topic: Leap Year
The Soufflé isn’t the soufflé; the soufflé is the recipe. --Clara
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Is it Real, or is it Julian (Sapphic)
This we owe to Julius Caesar, he who
tired of having variant year-lengths due to
moon and sun contriving to have no common
factor between their
cycles, so he got some Egyptian priests to
write a better calendar for him, with an
extra day each year that’s divisible by
four, which we call a
leap year. Now philosophers must decide if
earth is simply going too slowly in its
orbit and the calendar pauses so it
can catch up with our
ideal human formula for its travels,
or (and this is heresy) if our tidy
system is not accurate since it seems to
need a fudge factor.
Non-practicing atheist
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03-02-2020, 02:09 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-02-2020, 02:17 AM by RiverNotch.)
2020
Add a day to the month of purification
to scrub away the skin,
pinking red mingling gold
to white of bone.
A dance I miss: I've found a job
and words and words I cannot say
all's crap out here, I have a room
and bed and internet. I am alive. I watch the sun
arc above rooftops and treetops bare
into the western sea,
starlings and crows and gold eyed mynas
rain their white flood like ash, like viruses,
and I am alone, Mark and his shrouded corpse,
the plebs slaughter Cinna, Lucan's April bath.
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Once every four years,
Black history month
Is still the shortest month
Peanut butter honey banana sandwiches
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I was born on a leap year
on a leap year day
and surprising as it seems
I am a quarter of my age.
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
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03-04-2020, 11:53 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-04-2020, 11:54 AM by Tiger the Lion.)
The Guns of August
I ain't never met a man
had anything nice to say
about February.
She's cold as fuck
and can't even spell
her own name propurly.
Awhile back they clipped
a few days off her
like they was frostbit toes
and every four years
she comes hobblin' back
lookin' for 'em.
Can't say as I blame her,
but if it were up to me
I'd of chopped her at the knee;
give her sixteen and August forty-three.
