"The land, its people, and their blood are our glory,"
declaimed our elder statesman, Uncle Carapace Goiter,
having wakened early to enter the
delapidated gazebo
where he had gone to study---to reconnoiter---
the collected Works of Seneca.
Meanwhile, the bottled placebo
failed to work: he needs a suppository,
or, if not that, an enema.
Starward