what're you
waiting for
ready set snap!
you bet it hap-
pens opens
& closes so
roses're roses
re: red 'tis
said we've a
snap to weave
believe you
me 'twas akin
today again
your nosegay
--
Bob Marcacci
Now a Silenus, in ancient days, was a little box, of the kind we
see to-day in apothecaries' shops, painted on the outside with
such gay, comical figures as harpies, satyrs, bridled geese,
horned hares, saddled ducks, flying goats, stags in harness, and
other devices of that sort, light-heartedly invented for the
purpose of mirth, as was Silenus himself, the master of good old
Bacchus. But inside these boxes were kept rare drugs, such as
balm, ambergris, cardamum, musk, civet, mineral essences, and
other precious things.
- Francois Rabelais, "Gargantua And Pantagruel"
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