Beauty we are often told
Lasts even when you are old
But wrinkles are dreary
Show that you’re too weary
Should never be shown in bold.
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(These lines are what I grew up knowing, not the nine syllable form).
https://skepticskaddish.com/2023/04/05/w3-prompt-49-weave-written-weekly/
Is it just me or is the Speaker of the House taking on a bit more than his position requires? Meeting today in LA with what results? I feel he’s trying to be the “supreme leader” following in Trump’s footsteps. Maybe I missed a political science lesson, but I thought the Secretary of State or the Vice President was in charge of foreign affairs. The Secretary of Defense even, when considering Taiwan. McCarthy is to me, a much too biased politico to take on important duties such as this. His main job should be to oversee and control the House of Representatives, and that’s ominous enough.
D for dragon. Beliefs about dragons vary considerably through regions. Draconic creatures appear in virtually all cultures around the globe and the earliest attested reports of draconic creatures resemble snakes, because humans have an innate fear of snakes and other animals that were major predators of humans’ primate ancestors and often depicted as winged, horned, and capable of breathing fire. Dragons are usually said to reside in “dank caves, deep pools, wild mountain reaches, sea bottoms, haunted forests”—all places which would have been fraught with danger for early human ancestors.
My diet’s working, only berries from now on
It makes me less attractive and safer from the throng.
Always leering, looking, while I’m doing…anything
Those people in the park with their cameras on a string.
I’ve decided with the diet I will seem less visible
Therefore all the visitors will be less quizzable.
I shouldn’t blame them, I guess they are no threat
But we bears like privacy and it’s what we don’t get.
Every time I see one coming I hide behind this tree
Even then they snap and laugh as if they can see me.
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http://christinebialczak.com/2023/04/04/simply-6-minutes-welcome-to-the-challenge-04-04-2023/
http://gmgblog.ca/2023/04/03/five-word-weekly-challenge-2314/
http://fivedotoh.com/2023/04/03/fandangos-flash-fiction-challenge-213/
C for Cerberus, known as the hound of Hades, a multi-headed dog that guards the gates of the Underworld to prevent the dead from leaving. His three heads were thought to represent the past, the present, and the future while other sources suggest they were symbolic of birth, youth, and old age.
The Bag Lady 
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