Day 33:
Still no Rioting and looting
to "honor" Paul and Lidia Marino...
To Be cont.
Paul and Lydia Marino were ambushed.
While paying respects to their son.
Even a place of final rest isn't safe anymore.
The killer was BLACK; the elderly couple were WHITE.
That's why it moved at the speed of light...
to the back of the news breadline.
BLACK on WHITE crime doesn't sell well,
Ratings won't pop as it does for a poor BLACK man
Paul and Lidia couldn't breathe either.
Where is the outrage?
Where are the civil rights activists?
Where are those two rabid reverends?
Why do we not ever call BLACK-on-WHITE crime
a hate crime?
Nobody is taking banners to the streets
for Paul and Lidia.
Nobody is breathing for them.
Somebody must breathe for them.
Toss kindling atop this stack of complacency.
Rest in peace, Paul and Lidia Marino.
Killed by a Black racist in a veterans' cemetery.
E-agerly
U-se
N-ewness
I-n
C-ool
E-arly
M-orn
A-s
R-adiance
I-s
N-ow
O-pen
Topic: Birthday of Eunice Marino (August 03)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
enormes arboles
juguetes pequenos
expectativas del descenso
de la pasion
the predictions were right
restos de las
inundacion
agua azul marino
estamos aterrizando
pronto
en la tierra del amor
eterno
E marino ana te tai
To mauri kaatoretore
Tukuna tou haukura kia rere
Hei whakaora i te hunga
He waahi hakoakoa
Rere ana to wairua whakamahu, he waahi muna, he korowai paataka kai.
Topography Lesson
Geography, I was good at it in school but somehow I missed San Marino.
I vaguely remember a movie with some lady star of yore making
a film about the place, maybe I have got it wrong and it was Monaco,
which has a royal house with princesses and a prince or two?
San Marino is a republic one of the oldest around and that is why it is
unknown. What, no princesses, no romantic castles or a mad king?
Sorry no. Just dry republicans, banks and a vinery and wild boars which
is of no interest to popular ladies´ magazines like “Halloo”.
In Serravalle, near the Apennine Alps; there is a butcher who specialises
in cured ham which has some claim to fame, and in San Marino,
the capitol city, there is a good restaurant. Humiliation, going through
life not knowing about this tiny republic its history and coinage; my shame
is total. Should you go there do not drive too fast, because before you
know it you are back in Italy, spaghetti Bolognese and smelly toilettes .
Why are we so afraid of the number thirteen?
It is only an integer between twelve and fourteen.
Mathematics would not be too fine
if there was no square root of one hundred sixty-nine.
If thirteen is unlucky as one man says,
then why is it worn by Alex Rodriguez?
In sports, Alex was not the only man.
The number was also worn by Wilt Chamberlain.
There is one other sports notable everyone should know.
The Dolphins gave the number to Dan Marino.
There are many tall building rising from the ground.
Why can’t one with a thirteenth floor be found?
This is the thirteenth line. I could have stopped here.
I’m adding a fourteenth line for those who have the fear.
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