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August 3, 2021

There was the cat slopping its milk all day,
Fat cat, red tongue, green mind, white milk
And August the most peaceful month.



—Wallace Stevens
  American poet (1879-1955)

Source: "A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts" in Collected Poetry and Prose (buy from Amazon)




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