Thirteen Snapshots
Silly Sara Jane was an apostrophe in the Halloween parade.
Pregnant Peggy Sue was an ampersand.
Skinny Sam was an exclamation mark.
Crooked Willie was a comma.
Nosy Gnarlene was a question mark.
090913
Henry Kissinger told a joke to Richard Nixon. It became known as Mr. Nixon’s favorite joke. A man asked Richard Wagner, Do you spell your name with a W. He replied, Nien, W.
)()()( oops, the shift key just loves to make trouble. Lets try this again. Be sure to leave the 9mm alone. Or use the canine squad. If you see Kay, give her love potion number nine.
090909 was a really neat day. And not just two days later was 911, and we know goes on then. 090909 was the last day of its type until 01/01/2101. A day expressed by three zeros and three single digits.
Nine is the largest of the single digit numbers. It is a baseball team, without the DH. A baseball game lasts nine innings, just like a pregnancy lasts nine months. A pregnancy is not considered a complete game if it is rained out after the fifth inning.
Nine is pronounced the same as No in German. Was 090909 known in Berlin as oh no, oh no? Did Yoko Ono make an appearance to celebrate? Did the mask work better for her than it did for John?
Nine is an odd number. Nine is three squared. If you multiply a number by nine, and then add the digits of the sum together, you will get nine. An example is 2×9=18, and 1+8=9.
Nine is six upside down. A pristine pastime popularized 69. Jimi Hendrix wondered if six turned out to be nine, he don’t mind. The Beatles did a song called Revolution number nine, which said “turn me on dead man” if played backwards. Number Nine, Number Nine, Number Nine.
This was originally posted 090909. It was adapted on 090913 for use in the Trifecta writing challenge. Pictures are from The Library of Congress.
Mug Shots
These glamor shots are courtesy of Gwinnett County. The guests are held by a legal tether in the loft of bad behavior. With bravery and grace they wear the crown of presumed guilt.
Grace
Soldiers from 150 years ago display the grace of silent, still memory. Today, America is thinking about another war. It will not be our men who die. We will direct our high tech weapons to coordinates on a screen. We will not hear the women and children scream. We will not be at risk, except for damage to our national soul. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. They are Union Soldiers from the War Between the States. That war was not fought with unmanned aircraft.











































































































































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