For years now I have been buying a poppy on or around Memorial Day attaching it to the bike and removing one year later. For me, it is a symbol of the First World War in all its murderous fatuousness, silly stupid slaughter, and pointlessness and, consequently, a nearly perfect example of the misrule of the 1%, whether old school aristos or new model plutocrats.
In that spirit some musical to contemplate the unnecessary misery imposed on most of us by a thoughtless, heedless, and feckless minority:
Enjoy your weekend before the forces of reaction take it away.
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