Friday, September 19, 2008

[1905 - Leon Jaworski, attorney, Watergate special prosecutor, born in Waco, Texas]

[1907 - Lewis F. Powell, Jr., Supreme Court Associate Justice, born in Suffolk, Virginia]

[1911 - Sir William Golding, Nobel Prize-winning writer, born near Newquay, Cornwall, England]

[1931 - Brook Benton (Benjamin Franklin Peay), singer, born in Lugoff, South Carolina]

[1941 - 'Mama' Cass Elliott (Ellen Naomi Cohen), singer, born in Baltimore, Maryland]

Dinner Is Served

At sundown, if females hunted not,
Would males rush out to make a kill?
How great a hunger is their lot,
Before the pride can eat its fill?

How many sundowns now come and go,
'Til males overcome their foolish pride?
Could they bring down scarce prey in snow?
Or should the females take the cubs to hide?

You knew me well 'fore mated we became.
Am I not true, and often just the same?
I can take all the family out to dinner,
Cook the meal; lest we do end much thinner.

William's Whimsical Words:

And have you never heard me roar?
Please, Dear, go out to the store.

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