When He Laughed, Respectable Senators Burst with Laughter

I don't do birthdays here like once and as a result don't check the website I used to check everyday everyday anymore. I missed Hecht's, for instance. I didn't miss Bowie's but didn't post a Bowie birthday post this past January. For years I've posted a big fat W.H. Auden birthday post every February 21, not today (and not last year either?), here is the big fat post as link today, Auden born 116 years ago today. Let's see if George shows up here four days from today. Wooo! too, though probably not

[I HAVE FIVE SQUARES WET...]

Jeff Popovich

I have five squares wet

and haven't typed a word. Here:

Look! Shitty humans

Me, shitty, aiming

news of human shittiness

(once upon a time

daily) for huzzahs

at my keen human shittiness

awooga. Constant

awoogas, we live

Life in the Awoogacene

Starting sixth wet square

My awoogas in

distinguishable, awoo

ga Life in O(bs)cene

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EPITAPH OF A TYRANT

W.H. Auden

Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after,
And the poetry he invented was easy to understand;
He knew human folly like the back of his hand,
And was greatly interested in armies and fleets;
When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,
And when he cried the little children died in the streets.