Poetry Updates for April 2010
In the Porkopolis.org Library, poetry updates for mid-April include: an eccentric Anglican; a moveable feast; diction adapted to a certain class of readers; lawyers, not pigs in time of famine; hogs and men hunted and penned in an inglorious spot; and lastly, perpetual promises, but to no good ends. The poet Robert Peters discusses Gyp, [...]
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Last week, I helped a dear friend commit government-sanctioned assisted suicide. My friend could keenly feel the demolition that age and time works upon us. He understood and accepted the destiny fated to all people and things in a disposable society. He went quietly, with honor and a grace that belied the full-throttled energy with which he had shared his life with me.
Porky Pig Postage Stamp
The Porky Pig postage stamp is the fifth and final stamp in the USPS’ Looney Tunes series and pictures cartoondom’s stuttering swine, Porky Pig, as a mail carrier wearing a leather U.S. mailbag and standing near a weathered wooden mailbox. The Looney Tunes Porky Pig stamp, issued on October 1, 2001, was part of the USPS’ 2001 National Stamp Collecting Month kickoff.
