Unexpected day / off from work results in a / multipup EP!

[a_mere_child]

A pregnant woman,
poring over a large map
of Australia.

A Warehouse agent,
seated at the piano,
playing Tom Lehrer.

A long, lean, black cat,
stalking small scurrying things
through the new spring grass.

One mun, many pups,
one outside and two inside.
Which one will you tag?

[Open 'til it scrolls. Haiku optional.]

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[ostro_goth]

Piano player,
Being watched by Ostrogoth.
This music is new!

Dropping the haiku format becasue it's a pain.

[doyousmellfudge]

Yes it is. Teja is unlikely to have heard a song like this before.

"But during National Brotherhood Week,
National Brotherhood Week,
Lena Horne and Sheriff Clark are dancing cheek-to-cheek..."

[ostro_goth]

It is a very odd song; and Teja actually chuckles at the line with the 'one-anotherhood week'.

[doyousmellfudge]

"It's only for a week, so have no fear--
Be grateful that it doesn't last all year!"

He finishes the song with a broad grin. That song always annoyed the hell out of his dad.

[ostro_goth]

"That was from a time," Teja says, "when only skin colour, possessions, and religion would be the issues that divided the people of that country?"

[doyousmellfudge]

Artie huffs a laugh at that. "Ohhh no. Not even close."

[ostro_goth]

"What else was there?" Teja says.

[doyousmellfudge]

"Politics, sports, conspiracy theories, celebrity gossip, you name it."

[ostro_goth]

"Oh, sports," Teja says. "They still do that, do they? Like the Nika riots in Byzantium, that began at the races, and cost tens of thousands of people their lives."

[doyousmellfudge]

"Not so much in my part of the world, but yeah." Artie shakes his head. "The stupid shit people will argue about..."

[ostro_goth]

"And those are not things that can be changed, at all," Teja says. "Or should be expected to change. Not even all poor people wish to become rich; some might prefer the freedom one has when free of possessions."

[doyousmellfudge]

"Not wanting to be rich doesn't keep poor people from hating the rich," points out Artie. "If anything, it makes the hate even worse."

[ostro_goth]

"Only those whose riches were dishonestly come by," Teja says. "Who can begrudge another the fruit of hard work and faithful service, even if they would mean the invisible bonds of self-enslavement to more freedom-minded men?"

[doyousmellfudge]

This elicits another wheezy laugh from Artie. "You don't know much about twentieth- and twenty-first-century politics, do you."

[ostro_goth]

"No," Teja says. "I died in the year 552 of Christian reckoning. I have been here awhile, and learned much, but still, I am a man of my time, mostly."

[doyousmellfudge]

"Consider yourself lucky," says Artie. "You may have had plagues, famine, and no indoor plumbing, but at least you didn't have to deal with corporate oligarchy."