To Rise – 14th January 2026

Shared with dVerse Quadrille #239 – smile, which immediately made me think of the Fall and so I went investigating the lyrics of their album containing the titular song. The italicised words are taken from various songs from the album Perverted By Language.

Repetitious history
Disease-ridden southern spectres
To fall, to rise again

Back to trade, back to barter
War is over with no shots fired

Undone, the strife-knot
For it’s…
The death of the dimwits
That makes US smile

Global majority
Once perverted by language
Definitive

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Today’s Daily Stoic poem:

Cut The Strings That Pull Your Mind

Fear, suspicion and desire all may beg
For your time and attentions
A spark may be lighting the powder keg
To blow up your pretensions