Heathcliff by Peter Gallagher for July 09, 2022

Shine little Heathcliff, “glimmer, glimmer”.

Sun day is tomorrow, but this is cool.

To tell it the full and not the Hemi(ng)way: The Cat Also Rises (and shines)

Shall I compare thee to a sun’s shades?

Thou art more clawly and more tem-purr-ate:

Rough winds do shake the garbage cans of ape,

And sun’s shades hath all too short a date;

Sometime too hot the eye of sun shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;

And every ham and meat sometime declines,

By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d;

But thy eternal sunshine shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that orange thou ow’st;

Nor shall doggies brag thou wander’st in his shade,

When in eternal helmets to time thou grow’st:

So long as robots can breathe or gums can fly in glee,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

— Will Yum ShakesPurr

Sunny, the Kelloggs Raisin Bran mascot, has massive gambling debts and needs the money.

The sun is a bad guy in a Super Mario Bros game.

Heathcliff Cruise. I’ll bet his Cat-copter could shoot down Maverick every time!!

Scurry.

Run birds

Beautiful like the sun.

In my eyes

Indisposed

In disguises no one knows

Hides the face

Lies the snake

And the sun in my disgrace

Boiling heat

Summer stench

Neath the black, the sky looks dead

Call my name

Through the cream

And I’ll hear you scream again

Black hole sun