And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
That's what happens when Mom sends the boys out to play.
ReplyDeleteWe had a couple of these in our backyard when living in Sri Lanka. The dog was terrified of them.
ReplyDeleteGenetic memory. They recall the time when dinosaurs ruled the earth, and mammals were nothing but snacks.
DeleteWith a purposeful grimace
ReplyDeleteand a terrible sound
He pulls the spitting
high-tension wires down
Helpless people on subway trains
Scream bug-eyed as he looks in on them
He picks up a bus and
he throws it back down
As he wades through the buildings
toward the center of town
- Mister Sunbeam
Oh no.
ReplyDeleteThere goes tokyo.