Pigmas 2022-23 2 January

[RiverNotch]

On the ninth day of Christmas, the Pig Pen gave to me
nine forged letters,
eight sweet loaves,
seven stray hoofprints,
six postgrad students,
five diamond rings,
four fairy tales,
three French towns,
two bare fists,
and a lampstand nearly all lit!



It's St. Sylvester's day! Commemorating a forgery addressed to the saint that was once used to justify papal supremacy, sow chaos among the historians of the future through verse.

[TranquillityBase]

Who needs forgery
when you’ve got Twitter and TikTok?
Is anything real anymore,
since real is defined by a media dragon 
and we don’t have any St. Sylvesters
only Sylvester the cat
and you know how his efforts turn out.
the dragon's done the deed,
the world’s forgery now.

But actually I’m still reeling
from tracing down the donation of Constantine
(which sounds like a real wrong turn for religion)
but then this week, I’ve also visited with heretics,
I think that was a few days ago,
a different saint.

So if this poem is rambling,
well, RiverNotch has me time traveling a lot,
and now he’s got me hunting dragons.
I was going to write a different poem,
but poor reader, this is what you got.
But think too of me,
twisting my head round Arianism
and 329 A.D.

[CRNDLSM]

1000 years between David and jesus
2000 years to now
3000 years til we build the pyramids
Where Adam gives eve a plow