Alphabet City

The trident gold on azure shield, 
lowers to allow the red-crowned crane,
very rare, a moment to settle in,
respite from the field

I can help with the Bear, the crane calls out, 
''kar-r-r-o-o-o!''  

For who knows Manchuria better?

I will rest here a while, in Kyivan style,
and serve up Peking Duck, instead of
the traditional finger-chicken-licking
flames

We'll keep him out but he is
part of the in crowd, and we're in 
with the in crowd, I go where the in crowd goes,
I know what the in crowd knows

kar-r-r-o-o-o!

We, the crowing crowned, in a single clutch,
multiply by five our own very quickly, 
such is our way

In the north we nest
in the spring

We don't work cheap, certainly
we are not free: 

Three things to keep in mind:
a brilliancy;
reciprocal Zugzwang;
Zwischenzug

O' say, can you see,
checked by two different pieces
in a single move!

Threats from all
orthogonally-adjacent points

Et tu Xi?

cc: MCS, Chagall, Dobie Gray, Wilhelm Steinitz

Hey!  It just dawned on me - 
Maybe the 40 mile 
Russian convoy 
on the way to Kiev
is in sympathy with 
Ottawa truckers

Waddya think, eh?

cc: Chagall, Justin, Putin, Stalin, Lenin, Hotel-Motel-Holiday Inn
2022

If half of the government TRULY believes the other half is
under the influence of foreign powers, why the hell
would they agree to be in the same room at a time
when Russia is about to advance strongly on Ukraine?  
Shouldn't they be fearful for their very lives?  

Don't they know 
Reichstags catch fire?

cc: Carlos, Michael C.S.
2022

From a risk management point of view,
does it make sense for the entire U.S.
government to be in a single location
this evening?

I remember when CEOs and CFOs
couldn't ride the same elevator
or fly the same plane.

But what do I know!

cc: Michael, Carlos, Sebastien Greco, Bambino Cuadrado, Ramon Rivera
2022

Imagine the convoy turns around,
preempts its trip to Kiev, recalculates
its route back to Moscow, with greater
intent to succeed now than when their
target was Ukraine, finally - a just mission

144 million Russians in the streets...
all eyes on a single target

Certainly would send the right message

cc: Carlos, Michael, J. Lennon, Y. Ono (girl, put on some clothes!)
2022

The nurse asked if I indulged in recreational drugs.
I told her no, that all of my drug use was strictly professional.

cc: Chagall, C. Marin, T. Chong
2022

I am 
at the intersection of
two infinities

From both ends afar
I am
the vanishing point

The zero
is what
I am

cc: Michael, C. Chagall

Ms. Goldberg,

Today we will conclude with Lesson #2
on "Race: Thinking Out Of The Box."

Before we start, we are sorry to announce that 
this will be the final offering, and that we 
are cancelling next semester's
Master Class.

best regards,
MCS

P.S.  Consider: why not rebrand your show as
Views.  I believe you could pull it off.  Show the way.  
Show the ignorant yentas around the table how it's done.
Make a difference.

cc: Chagall 2022

The eternally irreplaceable,
parts of our lives that are gone forever,
churches, temples, our keepers of the faith,
hold the names of those who preceded us,
their births, their deaths, joyous life in between,
vulnerable to the flame and the bomb,
but never will they burn or be destroyed,
long may they live, Slava Ukraini!

cc: Chagall, World
2022

Inside a looped noose
The world is oh so simple
Just pull on the bow

cc: Chagall 2022