Hypocrisy Rules

We pick up our scripts
And rehearse our parts
Round the water cooler each day
We profess beliefs we do not share
With the characters in our play
When forced to reconcile
Our actions with our acting
We say, Well, what the hey?
Hypocrisy rules the rat race
Just make sure you pick a rat
That’s not too fat
Or you might not get away
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Credits: Poem and Collageery by Jay “Pretense Al” Larsen

Conference Call Doodle--The Rat Catcher

Big cities are full of essential services that operate everyday without attracting our attention.
In the sewers beneath our homes and businesses hordes of vermin grow fat on the effluvia of everyday life. Chief among these are the rats, who would swarm out and invade our daily lives of commerce and comfort if it were not for an unseen cadre of small but valiant defenders. Behold the diminutive Rat Catchers, brave hunters of rodents, bane of rat kind. Many of the bigger rats are twice their size, yet these hunters go unafraid into the slimiest warrens to fight epic battles in the dark against vicious red-eyed rats before they have the chance to multiply and swam up to the surface streets.
We civilized denizens of the metropolis owe a debt of thanks and gratitude to the nearly invisible guardians of our drains and cesspools, the Rat Catchers. Good hunting, little brothers! Good hunting!

--Doodles and Daydreams by Jay Larsen