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Programming pauses while I am visited by Streptococcus pyogenes, the chained-granules productive-of-pus. Pyogenes, the even crustier cousin of Diogenes. He moved out of the barrel into a sewer grate, and stank and stank, and was not visited by Alexander.

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Texts and images copyright (C) 2022 Pauline Kerschen. Layout adapted from the Single A Tumblr theme by businessbullpen. The Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) has zygodactylic feet, leaving X-shaped tracks with ambiguous direction. The Pueblo and Hopi used the X symbol to mislead evil spirits. Border folklore in the early twentieth century held that a roadrunner would lead a lost traveler back to his path. In Mexico the roadrunner is known as paisano, countryman.