Fixed with a snap of fingers

 This'll be good bleed the poorest of the poor open internment camps make girls have babies that the rich can buy for a few months of diversion as long as there's football and basketball and baseball with athletes earning ten fifty one hundred million per year they'll need concessions shit suds in microplastic buns they'll need to park their lincoln navigator close by the stadium they'll need sitters for the children at home in the guarded suburbs 45 minutes away it's a small drive to flee the city and it's unionized teachers its uppity baristas and landscapers "with ideas" don't drive out of the suburbs however into the actual country the kids have guns the adults are kids the poor are rich with guns the animals aren't killed before eating the eggs are locked down the horses are working horses the dogs have dogs the cats just drop in once a month for kibble the kibble has guns the keys to the pecking order are on a big fake gold chain on grandpas neck that he sleeps with with a gun under his pillow the poor they're out to rip us off jesus would've taught those poor some manners how to pray your way into the grace of shelter how to make clothing appear from thin air how sports and sporting worship are the only path thru the trials of which cereal to buy the ones with marshmallows or the ones with marshmallow crosses and vanilla hexes  

 

 

"The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni, also known by the British title  

Transformation,  

was the last of the four major romances by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and was published in 1860. 

 The Marble Faun, written on the eve of the American Civil War, 

 is set in a fantastical Italy. The romance mixes elements of a fable, pastoral, gothic novel, and travel guide. " 

"Miriam is a beautiful painter with an unknown past. Throughout the novel, she is compared to many other women including Eve, Beatrice Cenci, Judith, and Cleopatra. Miriam is pursued by a mysterious, threatening man who is her “evil genius” through life. Hilda is an innocent copyist. She is compared to the Virgin Mary and the white dove. Her simple, unbendable moral principles can make her severe in spite of her tender heart. Miriam and Hilda are often contrasted. 

Kenyon is a sculptor who represents rationalist humanism. He cherishes a romantic affection towards Hilda. Donatello, the Count of Monte Beni, is often compared to Adam and is in love with Miriam. Donatello amazingly resembles the marble Faun of Praxiteles, and the novel plays with the characters’ belief that the Count may be a descendant of the antique Faun. Hawthorne, however, withholds a definite statement even in the novel’s concluding chapters and postscript." 

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"Sophia wrote to her sister Elizabeth Peabody that her husband's reaction was typical:  

"As usual, he thinks the book good for nothing..."  

  Alas, it's good for wine 

The smell of ancient pages

From trees pulped not long 

After civil war blood 

Had nourished their roots 

Trace notes are detected 

Upon opening the bottle 

1893 a seasonable vintage 

To one discerning 

Friendship inscribed by some February past 

When life began as grape 

To slowly become 1993, 

2023 wine.