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Ping Ping Ping That is the sound of my phone alerting me to overnight snowfall at the various Hokkaido ski resorts I monitor. While this sound brings me immense joy in January and February, in March, it brings only FOMO. I decamped from Hokkaido in early March for the past few ski seasons. My recent experience taught me that Mother Nature turns on the heat circa March 1st. I’m a primadonna skier who only likes the driest and deepest pow. However, this season, Gaia changed up big time. There was a brutal warm spell in February that rekt the snow back. The cold weather only returned towards the end of the month. But frigid temperatures came back in March, accompanied by 10 to 30cm dumps of freshie pow pow every night. Hence, the reason why my phone was blowing up. Sitting in various South East Asian hot and humid countries throughout March, I kept foolishly checking the app and ruing my decision to leave the slopes. The April thaw finally occurred in earnest, and with it, the end to my FOMO. As readers know, my ski experiences act as metaphors for my macro and crypto trading book. I previously wrote that the cessation of the US Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP) on March 12th would cause a global market rout. The BTFP was cancelled, but a vicious sell-off in crypto specifically did not occur. Bitcoin broke $70,000 decisively and topped out around $74,000. Solana kept pumping alongside various doggie and kitty meme coins. My timing was wrong, but like the ski season, the unexpected favorable March conditions will not be repeated in April. While I love winter, summer brings joy as well. The onset of northern hemispheric summer brings sporting bliss as I reorient time towards playing tennis, surfing, and kiteboarding. Summer will usher in a renewed gusher of fiat liquidity due to the policies of the US Federal Reserve (Fed) and Treasury. I will briefly outline my mental map on how and why April will experience extreme weakness in risky asset markets. For those intrepid enough to short crypto, the macro setup is favorable. While I will not outright short the market, I have closed in profit several shitcoin and memecoin trading positions. From now until May 1st, I will be in a no-trade zone. I hope to return in May with dry powder ready to deploy to position myself for the bull market to begin in earnest. Tricksters The Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP) ended a few weeks ago, but no US, non-Too-Big-to-Fail (TBTF) banks have subsequently faced any real stress. That is because high priests of fugazi finance have a bag of tricks they will use to surreptitiously print money in order to bail out the financial system. I will peek behind the curtain and explain how they are expanding the USD fiat money supply, which will underpin the general rise of crypto and stonks until the end of the year. While the end result is always money printing, the journey is not without periods where liquidity growth slows, providing a negative catalyst for risk markets. By going through the bag of tricks and estimating when the rabbit will be pulled from the hat, we can guestimate when there will be periods where the free market is allowed to operate. The Discount Window The Fed and most other central banks operate a facility known as the discount window. Banks and other covered financial institutions who are in need of funds can pledge eligible securities to the Fed in exchange for cash. By and large, the discount window, for now, only accepts US Treasuries (UST) and mortgage-backed securities (MBS). Assume that a bank is fucked because a bunch of Pierce & Pierce boomer muppets runs it. The bank holds a UST that was worth $100 when purchased but is currently worth $80. The bank is in need of cash to satisfy deposit outflows. Rather than declaring bankruptcy, the dogshit insolvent bank can tap the discount window. The bank swaps the $80 UST for $80 of dolla dolla bills because under the current rules the bank receives the market value of pledged securities. To deprecate the BTFP and remove the associated negative stigma without increasing the risk of bank failures, the Fed and US Treasury now encourage troubled banks to tap the discount window instead. However, under the current collateral terms, the discount window is not as attractive as the recently expired BTFP. Let’s go back to our example above to understand why. Remember that the UST’s value declined from $100 to $80, which means the bank has an unrealized loss of $20. Initially the $100 of UST was funded with $100 of deposits. But now the UST is worth $80; therefore, the bank would be short $20 if all the depositors fled. Under the BTFP rules, the bank receives par for underwater USTs. That means a UST worth $80, when delivered to the Fed, is swapped for $100 of cash. This restores the solvency of the bank. But the discount window only gives $80 for a UST worth $80. The $20 loss is still there, and the bank remains insolvent. Given that the Fed can unilaterally change the collateral rules to equalize the treatment of assets by the BTFP and discount window, by greenlighting the use of the discount window by the insolvent banking system, the Fed continued the stealth banking bailout. Therefore, the Fed has essentially solved the BTFP problem; the entire UST and MBS balance sheet of the insolvent US banking system (I estimate at $4 trillion) will be supported when needed by money printed to finance loans through the discount window. This is why I believe the markets haven’t forced any non-TBTF banks into bankruptcy post-March 12th, when the BTFP ended. Bank Capital Requirements Banks are often called upon to finance governments who offer bonds at yields less than nominal GDP. But why would private for-profit entities buy something that features a negative real yield? They do it because the banking regulators allow banks to purchase government bonds with little to no money down. When the banks, who hold an insufficient capital cushion against their government bond portfolio, inevitably blow up because inflation appears and bond prices fall as yields rise, the Fed allows them to use the discount window in the manner described above. As a result, banks would rather buy and hold government bonds than lend to businesses and individuals in need of capital. When you or I buy anything using borrowed money, we must pledge collateral or equity against potential losses. That is prudent risk management. But the rules are different if you are a vampire squid zombie bank. After the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC), the world’s banking regulators attempted to force banks globally to hold more capital, thus creating a more robust and resilient global banking system. The system of rules that codified these changes are called Basel III. The problem with Basel III is that government bonds are not treated as riskless. Banks must put a small amount of capital behind their gargantuan portfolio of sovereign bonds. These capital requirements have proven problematic during times of stress. During the COVID March 2020 market crash, the Fed decreed that banks could hold USTs with no collateral backing. This allowed banks to step in and warehouse trillions of dollars worth of USTs in a riskless fashion … at least in terms of their accounting treatment. When the crisis abated, the supplemental leverage ratio (SLR) exemption for USTs was reinstated. Predictably, as UST prices fell due to inflation, banks went bust due to an insufficient capital cushion. The Fed rode to the rescue with the BTFP and now the discount window, but that only covers losses from the last crisis. How can banks step up and slurp down more bonds at the current unattractively high prices? The US banking system loudly proclaimed in November 2023 that due to Basel III forcing them to hold more capital against their government bond portfolios, Bad Gurl Yellen could not stuff them with more bonds. Therefore, something had to give because the US government has no other natural buyers of its debt at these negative real yields. Below is the polite way the banks phrased their precarious situation. Demand for US Treasuries may have softened among several traditional buyers. Bank security portfolio assets have been declining since last year, with bank holdings of Treasuries down $154 billion compared to one year ago. Source: Report to the Secretary of the Treasury from the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee Again, the Fed – led by Powell – saved the day. Out of nowhere, at a recent , Powell proclaimed that banks would not be subject to higher capital requirements. Remember that many politicians called for banks to hold more capital so that the regional banking crisis of 2023 would not repeat itself. Obviously, the banks lobbied hard to nullify these higher capital requirements. They had a good argument –  if you, Bad Gurl Yellen, want us to buy dogshit government bonds, then we can only do it profitably with infinite leverage. Banks around the world run every flavour of government; the US is no different. US Senate Banking hearing The icing on the cake was a recent letter from the International Swaps Dealer Association (ISDA) advocating for an exemption of USTs from the SLR I spoke about earlier. In essence, banks can only hold USTs in the trillions of dollars needed to finance the US government deficit on a go-forward basis if they are required to put no money down. I expect as the US Treasury ramps up debt issuance, the ISDA proposal will be accepted. This excellent chart from clearly shows how wasteful the US Government is, as evidenced by the record-high deficit. The two recent periods where deficit spending was higher were due to the 2008 GFC and the boomer-led COVID lockdowns. The US economy is growing, but the government is spending money like it's an economic depression. Bianco Research Taken together, the relaxation of capital requirements and a likely future exemption of USTs from the SLR are a covert way of money printing. The Fed doesn’t print the money, rather the banking system creates the credit money out of thin air and purchases the bonds which then appear on their balance sheet. As always, the goal is to ensure that government bond yields do not rise to a level above the nominal GDP growth rate. As long as real rates remain negative, stonks, crypto, gold, etc., will continue advancing in fiat currency terms. Bad Gurl Yellen My essay “ ” spoke in depth about how the US Treasury, led by Bad Gurl Yellen, increased the issuance of short-term Treasury bills (T-bills) in an effort to drain the trillions of dollars locked in the Fed’s Reverse Repo Program (RRP). As expected, the RRP decline coincided with a rip higher in stonks, bonds, and crypto. But now that the RRP is down to $400 billion, the market is wondering what the next source of fiat liquidity will be that bolsters asset prices. Don’t you worry, Yellen ain’t done yet, shout ‘bout to booty drop. Bad Gurl RRP Balance (white) vs. Bitcoin (yellow) The flow of fiat funds I will discuss focuses on US tax payments, the Fed’s Quantitative Tightening (QT) program, and the Treasury General Account (TGA). The timeline in question is from April 15th (the day tax payments are due for the 2023 tax year) to May 1st. Let me provide a quick guide on their positive or negative impact on liquidity to help you understand the implications of these three things. remove liquidity from the system. That is because payers must remove cash from the financial system by selling securities for example, in order to pay their taxes. Analysts expect tax payments for the 2023 tax year to be on the high side because of the large amounts of interest income received and a solid performance in the stock market. Tax Payments removes liquidity from the system. As of March 2022, the Fed allows roughly $95 billion worth of UST and MBS to mature without reinvesting the proceeds. This causes the Fed’s balance sheet to fall, which we all know reduces dollar liquidity. However, we are not concerned about the absolute level of the Fed’s balance sheet but the pace at which it declines. Analysts, like Joe Kalish of Ned Davis Research, expect the Fed to reduce the pace of QT by $30 billion per month at its May 1st meeting. The reduction in the pace of QT is positive for dollar liquidity as the Fed’s balance sheet rate of decline slows. QT When the balance rises, it removes liquidity from the system, but when it falls, it adds liquidity to the system. When the Treasury receives tax payments, the TGA balance rises. I expect the TGA balance to swell well above the current ~$750 billion level as tax payments are processed on April 15th. This is dollar liquidity negative. Don’t forget it's an election year. Yellen’s job is to get her boss, US President , reelected. That means she must do all she can to juice the stock market to make voters feel rich and ascribe this great outcome to the slow “genius” of Bidenomics. When the RRP balances finally go to zero, Yellen will spend down the TGA, releasing, most likely, an additional $1 trillion of liquidity into the system, which will pump markets. TGA Jeo Boden The precarious period for risky assets is April 15th to May 1st. This is when tax payments remove liquidity from the system, QT rumbles on at the current elevated pace, and Yellen has yet to start running down the TGA. After May 1st, the pace of QT declines, and Yellen gets busy cashing checks to jack up asset prices. If you are a trader looking for an opportune time to put on a cheeky short position, the month of April is the perfect time to do so. After May 1st, it’s back to regular programming … asset inflation sponsored by Fed and US Treasury financial shenanigans. Bitcoin Halving The Bitcoin block reward is forecast to halve on April 20th. This is seen as a bullish catalyst for crypto markets. I agree that it will pump prices in the medium term; however, the price action directly before and after could be negative. The narrative of the halving being positive for crypto prices is well entrenched. When most market participants agree on a certain outcome, the opposite usually occurs. That is why I believe Bitcoin and crypto prices in general will slump around the halving. Given that the halving occurs at a time when dollar liquidity is tighter than usual, it will add propellant to a raging firesale of crypto assets. The timing of the halving adds further weight to my decision to abstain from trading until May. To date I took full profit on these positions, MEW, SOL, and NMT. The proceeds were placed into and staked to earn that phat yield. Before Ethena, I would have held USDT or USDC and earned nothing while Tether and Circle captured the entire T-bill yield. Ethena’s USDe Could the market defy my bearish inclinations and continue higher? Fuck yeah. I’m perennially long as fuck crypto, so I welcome being wrong. Do I really want to babysit my most speculative shitcoin positions while I’m two-stepping at Token2049 Dubai? Hell no. Therefore, I dump. There is no need to be upset. If the dollar liquidity scenarios I discussed above come true, I will have that much more confidence to ape into all manner of dogshit. If I miss a few percentage points of gains but definitely avoid losses for my portfolio and lifestyle, that is an acceptable outcome. With that, I bid you adieu. Please remember to put your dancing shoes on, and I will see you in Dubai for a celebration of the crypto bull market.

Heatwave

তাপপ্রবাহ

Hitzewelle

Ola de calor

Vague De Chaleur

हीटवेव

熱波

폭염

Onda de calor

Волна тепла

Sıcak hava dalgası

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The fall and rise of have been nothing short of astonishing in recent years. After shedding more than 70% of its value amid 2022’s tech stock sell-offs, the stock surged 180% in 2023–and the tech giant is far from finished. Meta It’s difficult to find the right superlatives for Meta [NASDAQ: META]. The stock became one of the best performers on the global stage last year, and the company’s measured approach to embracing artificial intelligence formed a key component of its impressive growth. Today, Meta has almost recovered all of its losses amid severe economic headwinds in late 2021 and 2022 and has recaptured a market capitalization of almost $1 trillion. The stock’s impressive movements throughout the past 12 months have seen it become one of the stars of the ‘Magnificent Seven,’ a collective of leading tech stocks including Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia, Meta, and Tesla. But as the generative AI boom rumbles on and ideation shifts towards implementation for the emerging technology, can Meta continue to facilitate its growth throughout 2024? Let’s take a deeper look at why Meta has become the stock that investors are coveting most this year: Finding Strength in Fundamentals It’s impossible to ignore Meta’s underlying financial strength as a key attribute to 2023’s impressive Wall Street growth. “The company has demonstrated strong financial performance, with a 23% growth in revenue to $34.1 billion in the third quarter of 2023, surpassing expectations,” highlights Maxim Manturov, head of investment research at . Freedom Finance Europe “Meta's vision for the effectiveness of the company has translated into reality, and its diverse user base supports profitable, targeted advertising, a significant revenue driver.” In addition to its impressive revenue growth, Meta is an attractive proposition for advertisers, thanks to its extensive data reservoirs that pave the way for more targeted campaigns. As a result, the firm’s advertising revenue has increased 23% in Q3 to $33.6 billion. However, it appears to be Meta’s inroads in the field of artificial intelligence that will help to leverage growth in 2024. Meta’s AI offerings currently include Quest 3, AI-powered Ray-Ban Stories, and the AI Studio platform. With a significant free cash flow (FCF) balance of $13.6 billion by the end of Q3 2023, analysts are expecting AI investments to improve stock performance in the new year, anticipating revenue rising 13% year-over-year to $151 billion, while earnings are expected to rise 21% over the same time frame. According to a team of , there could be three catalysts to push Meta’s stock higher in 2024. The first comes in the form of a conservative consensus for sales growth, which may prove to be stronger thanks to better monetization of Reels short videos and growing interest from Chinese advertisers. Mizuho Securities analysts led by James Lee Secondly, the analysts believe that guidance on operating expenditures could fall over the financial year, which is a trend with some precedence. Finally, WhatsApp messaging performance may contribute to the revenue base by as much as a third due to the implementation of AI for automated customer service. Finding Strength in AI So far, much of the positive sentiment surrounding Meta in 2024 stems from optimism surrounding generative AI. There’s a good reason for this. While Meta has long utilized AI within its businesses in the form of identifying faces posted on Facebook and delivering curated content and ads for its users, the future of the company lies in its utility of generative AI services. In early 2023, Meta launched a for firms to bolster their social media advertising. Through an Ads Manager, images and text can be adapted from user to user to target their products more effectively. suite of free AI-powered marketing tools Crucially, this launch of AI tools has helped to make Facebook an even more attractive prospect for companies seeking to improve their marketing ROI. For Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, the arrival of generative AI was an opportunity for Meta to ramp up its operations. “AI has always been a major component of our thinking,” . “But like all technologies, you’re in these S curves. We’ve known for three or four years that these generative AI, large language models were a big deal, but they still felt like infrastructure. That’s why I think the OpenAI introduction of ChatGPT is so interesting.” Bosworth explained “I’m not trying to say we were prescient. We had been investing, and we believed in this technology. For all of that belief, it still snuck up on us. It was like, ‘Oh my god, it’s here. We’ve got to do things differently. We’ve got to change it up.’” Will Meta Lead the ‘Magnificent Seven’ in 2024? To better understand Meta’s position among the Magnificent Seven, it’s worth exploring its PEG ratio, which refers to the stock’s price/earnings in comparison to the company’s growth. With a , Meta features the second-best ratio of the seven Wall Street leaders, falling behind Nvidia with an impressive 0.95 PEG. PEG ratio of 1.2 As another stock that’s heavily exposed to generative AI, Nvidia’s growth in 2024 will hinge on the development of the emerging technology and the success of the implementation process as more enterprises seek to embrace the GenAI boom. Meta, on the other hand, will rely on its rich history of innovation to harness the power of generative AI based on its products and services. With Meta’s history of resilience and strategic acumen in often unpredictable tech markets, we could see the stock outpacing its Magnificent Seven rivals in 2024, and with solid fundamentals continuing to drive growth, there’s no reason why Meta shouldn’t be at the top of investor priority lists for the year ahead.

Meta’s Meteoric Rise in 2023 Shows No Sign of Slowing This Year

2023 সালে মেটার উল্কা উত্থান এই বছর ধীর হওয়ার কোন লক্ষণ দেখায় না

Metas kometenhafter Aufstieg im Jahr 2023 zeigt in diesem Jahr keine Anzeichen einer Verlangsamung

El meteórico ascenso de Meta en 2023 no muestra signos de desaceleración este año

L’ascension fulgurante de Meta en 2023 ne montre aucun signe de ralentissement cette année

2023 में मेटा की उल्कापिंडीय वृद्धि इस वर्ष धीमी होने का कोई संकेत नहीं दिखाती है

2023 年のメタの流星的上昇は今年も衰える兆しなし

2023년 메타의 급격한 상승세는 올해도 둔화될 조짐을 보이지 않습니다

A ascensão meteórica do Meta em 2023 não mostra sinais de desaceleração este ano

Метеоритный взлет Меты в 2023 году не покажет никаких признаков замедления в этом году

Meta'nın 2023'teki Meteorik Yükselişi Bu Yıl Yavaşlama İşareti Göstermiyor

Sự gia tăng thiên thạch của Meta vào năm 2023 không có dấu hiệu chậm lại trong năm nay

Meta 在 2023 年的迅速崛起今年没有放缓的迹象

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The Story-book of Science by Jean-Henri Fabre, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here . CLOUDS CHAPTER XLI. CLOUDS TO finish his talk on lightning, the next morning Uncle Paul told them about clouds. The occasion, moreover, was very favorable. In one part of the sky great white clouds like mountains of cotton were piled up. The eye was delighted with the soft outlines of that celestial wadding. “You remember,” he began, “all those fogs that on damp autumn and winter mornings cover the earth with a veil of gray smoke, hide the sun, and prevent our seeing a few steps in front of us!” “Looking into the air, you could see something like fine dust of water floating,” said Claire; and Jules added: “We played hide and seek with Emile in that kind of damp smoke. We could not see each other a few steps away.” “Well,” resumed Uncle Paul, “clouds and fog are the same thing; only fog spreads about us and shows for what it is, gray, damp, cold; while clouds keep more or less above us and take on, with distance, a rich appearance. There are some of dazzling whiteness, like those you see over there; others of a red color, or golden-hued, or like fire; still others of the color of ashes, and others that are black. The color changes, too, from moment to moment. At sunset you will see a cloud begin with being white, then turn scarlet, then shine like a pile of embers, or like a lake of melted gold, and finally become dull and turn gray or black, according as the sun’s rays strike it less and less. All that is a matter of illumination by the sun. In reality, clouds, however splendid in appearance, are formed of a damp vapor like that of fog. We can assure ourselves of this by a near approach.” “People can then mount as high as the clouds, Uncle?” Emile asked. “Certainly. All one needs is a pair of legs stout enough to climb to the top of a mountain. Often then clouds are under one’s feet.” “And you have seen clouds underneath you?” “Sometimes.” “That must be a very beautiful sight.” “So beautiful that words cannot express it. But it is not exactly a pleasure if the clouds mount and envelop you. You can be very much embarrassed by the obscurity of the fog alone. You lose your way; you become confused, without suspecting any danger in the most dangerous places, at the risk of falling into some abyss; you lose sight of the guides, who alone know the way and could save you from a false step. No, all is not roses up among the clouds. You will perhaps learn that some day to your cost. Meanwhile let us transport ourselves in imagination to the top of a cloud-capped mountain. If circumstances are favorable, here is what we shall see: “Above our heads the sky, perfectly clear, presents no unusual appearance; the sun shines there in all its brilliancy. Down there at our feet, almost in the plains, white clouds spread themselves out. The wind sweeps them before it and drives them toward the summit. There they are, rolling and mounting up the side of the mountain. One would think they were immense flocks of cotton pushed up the slope by some invisible hand. Now and then a ray of sunlight penetrates their depths and gives them the brilliancy of gold and fire. The beautiful clouds behind which the sun disappears at its setting are not richer. What brilliant tints, what soft suppleness! They mount higher and higher. Now they roll up like a shining white band around the top of the mountain, and hide the view of the plain from us. Only the point where we are projects above the cloud-curtain, like an islet above the sea. At last this point is invaded, we are in the bosom of the clouds. Warm tints, soft outlines, striking views—all have disappeared. It is now only a dark fog that saturates with moisture and makes us feel depressed. Ah, if some breath of wind would make haste and sweep away these disagreeable clouds! “That, my little friends, is what one does not fail to wish when one is in the clouds, which, so beautiful at a distance, are nothing but gloomy fog when close at hand. The spectacle of the clouds should be seen from afar. When in our curiosity we wish to examine certain appearances too closely, we sometimes find them deceptive; but we also find that, under a secondary brilliancy, which serves to adorn the earth, they hide realities of the first importance. The marvels of the clouds are only an appearance, an illusion of light; but under this illusion are concealed the reservoirs of rain, source of the earth’s fecundity. God, by whom the smallest details of creation have been ordered, willed that the most common but also most necessary substances should serve as an ornament to the earth in spite of their really humble aspect; and he clothes them with a prestige dependent on the distance from which we are to contemplate them. The gray vapor of the clouds gives us rain. That is its chief utility. The sun illuminates it, and that suffices to transform it into a celestial tapestry in which the astonished eye finds the splendor of purple, gold and fire. That is its ornamental function. Cirrus “The height maintained by clouds is very variable and is generally less than you might suppose. There are clouds that lazily trail along the ground; they are the fogs. There are others that cling to the sides of moderately high mountains, and still others that crown the summits. The region where they are commonly found is at a height varying from 500 to 1500 meters. In some rather rare instances they rise to nearly four leagues. Beyond that eternal serenity reigns; clouds never mount there, thunder never rumbles, and snow, hail, and rain never form. “Those clouds are called ‘cirrus’ that look sometimes like light flocks of curly wool, sometimes like drawn-out-filaments of dazzling whiteness, sharply contrasting with the deep blue of the sky. They are the highest of all the clouds. They are often a league high. When cirrus clouds are small and rounded and closely grouped in large numbers, so as to look like the backs of a flock of sheep, the sky thus covered is said to be dappled. It is usually a sign that the weather is going to change. Cumulus “The name ‘cumulus’ is given to those large white clouds with round outlines which pile up, during the heat of summer, like immense mountains of cotton-wool. Their appearance presages a storm.” “Then the clouds we see over there next to the mountains,” queried Jules, “are cumulus? They look like piles of cotton. Will they bring us a storm?” “I think not. The wind is driving them in another direction. The storm always takes place in their neighborhood. There! Hear that!” A sudden light had just flashed through the flocks of the cumulus. After rather a long wait the noise of the thunder reached them, but greatly weakened by distance. Questions came quickly from Jules’s and Emile’s lips: “Why does it rain over there, and not here? Why does the noise of the thunder come after the lightning? Why—” “We are going to talk about all that,” said Uncle Paul; “but first let us learn the other forms of clouds. ‘Stratus’ is applied to clouds disposed in irregular bands placed in tiers on the horizon at sunrise or sunset. They are clouds that, in the fading daylight, especially in autumn, take the glowing tints of melted metals and of flame. The red stratus of the morning are followed by rain or wind. Stratus “Finally, we give the name ‘nimbus’ to a mass of dark clouds of a uniform gray, so crowded together that it is impossible to distinguish one cloud from another. These clouds generally dissolve into rain. Seen from a distance, they often look like broad stripes extending in a straight line from heaven to earth. They are trails of rain. “Now Emile may ask his questions.” About HackerNoon Book Series: We bring you the most important technical, scientific, and insightful public domain books. This book is part of the public domain. Jean-Henri Fabre (2018). The Story-book of Science. Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg. Retrieved https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/56795/pg56795-images.html This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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Another collection of Prosody/Poetry Floaters and Sinkers, or An Ode to Politicians Some are floaters, Some are sinkers. Some are smelly, Some are stinkers! don't get caught here is exactly what i been taught justice ain't cheap, but it can be bought and it ain't a crime if you don't get caught that's the freedom the yahoos all sought but it ain't all turning out like it ought and that pretty much sums my passing thought Ode for Donald Trump well the science boys from every clime, yeh they all pitched in with overtime. the evidence was indeed conclusive, donald trump is most certainly abusive. hard to believe he could make such a climb being covered as he is in feces and slime. but i don't think his campaign will end well, in fact i suspect someone will blow him to hell. and while such nasty violence would be a crime, his speech seems to invite it time after time. if that happens well i will really be quite sad, for sure it'd make me less than glad; but i see the whole damn country has gone mad. Haiku you do Haiku do you do? Five, seven, and five Syllables will do. We try in that form To get across a feeling Of some emotion revealing... through fire for you I said it and it'll always be true - Yeh I'd walk through fire for you, Baby I'll do anything you ask me too, And for you I'll be glad to do it too. a bad road in the pouring rain well i got my green, i got my grain, don't do nothing to kill this old pain. nothing you can say will ever explain, you're a bad road in the pouring rain, one i driven down again and again. down by the creek down by the creek, my knees got weak. i wanted to speak, but being too meek, i could only squeak. then she said geek - get on down the creek! lips and hips, lover's trips I adore you like the moon and the stars, the sun and the sky. Forever and ever my sweet baby dear, always just you and I. the taste I love the taste of your charming kiss, the way you use your lips. And wow baby i really gotta say this, love how you move your hips! all i really Baby all I ever really wanna do Is make the sweetest love to you, And with everything I say and do, It's only for you I'm gonna be true. awesome love i got me a truly awesome love, baby was sent by heaven above! i count my blessings every day, and for her in gratitude i pray. i am such a blessed lucky boy, she brings me some of heaven's joy! green eyed girl in all of this Great God A'mighty world, nothin' i love more'n my green eyed girl! yeh how i love my sweet darlin' baby G, ain't no other girl anywhere i rather see. my green eyed girl is the only one for me! first time the first time i kissed you yeh that is when i knew no other lover would ever do and baby i love you true oh yes sweet Lord i do i've never----------------- i've never loved anyone like i love you, you may have heard it before too, but baby i swear to you it is true. being with you i never feel blue, there's nothing for you i wouldn't do. i've never loved anyone like i love you! sometimes sometimes i wonder, do you ever think of me? do you think of me and the way it used to be, before the crash and burn when you went free? in days so long ago and past we built a love that would last, before our love died and passed. sweet baby the future ain't what it used to be, yeh before you had to run away from me. can you tell me, what was it made you flee? can you hear me call your name? you know i'll never be the same, you're the only one ever lit my flame. ps. yeh, itz a country tune.... Hot Wired baby you know that i've got your line - i have your number and you have mine, please give me a call, that would be fine. so dial the number, let's use that wire, you know we both have that desire, yeh let's set this connection on fire! Golden Apples Don't be tempted by the shining apple of gold, It isn't very warm, neither to have nor to hold, And it will never protect you from that bitter cold You'll feel if your soul has been bought and sold. my love yes the first time ever that i lay with you made me want forever to stay with you, to play endless lovers games with you, to spend all of eternity's time with you. no one else could ever love me like you. downtown brown oooh baby, hey baby didja go downtown? and didja bring me some mexican brown? you know i really like to have the china white, but baby oooh baby the brown'd be alright. baby you and me could run together all night if you'll just do me good and treat me right. so best go on take it out and throw it down, cause honey, i know who you saw downtown. Cold city's beast Cold city's beast rumbles in the East. Stumbles. Falls, crawls. Goetz up. Beast rumbles in the East. For youths bored, cold city's beast. Four youths board city's cold beast. Some trade to ply, they have tools. Drivers of the screw. Four loosening dollars, true. Some trade to ply, a cheap peace. Of conversation for funds. Easy mark. Five dollars? For each of you? A cheap piece. For conservation of funds. Conversation for fun. Four each of you. The iron dog barks, makes sparks. Easy marks. True. Four each of you, shot through. Goetz off. For youths bored, city's cold piece. Easy to See Oh yeah any fool can see, you could do better'n me. Yeah it's easy to see, you're way to good for me. But it's more than clear When I hold you warm and near, kiss your cheek and nuzzle your ear, and whisper "I love you dear" In the middle of the night When you hold me warm and tight, Sharing your earthly delight, I know it's gonna be alright. Oh yeah any fool could see, you got eyes for me. Yeah it's plain to me, I'm the only one you see. Copyright 2011 by bobby b. wright winking eye winking eye soft lover's sigh, winking eye sweet lips silk glove, soft winking eye, winked its eye lover's trips soft like a sigh too shy, winked its eye lover's trips soft like a sigh, never no til ya try smooth hips lover's trips winked its eye, soft lover's thigh smooth lipped love, before the sigh, winked its eye soft, like a sigh too shy, winked its eye lover's trips soft love, never know til ya try, winked its eye smooth hips, lover's trips before the sigh winked its eye sweet lips winked its thigh before the sigh, sweet eye lover's trips like a cry before the sigh, soft thigh lover's trips soft, love, too shy to sigh, winked its eye smooth hips lover's trips soft lover's thigh, soft silk glove never no til ya try before the sigh winked its eye lover's trips soft lover's sigh, never know til ya try sweet lips, lover's trips a computer wrote this one (c) 1985 by Bobby B. Wright All Rights Reserved In My Mystic Forest In my mystic forest With just me and Mary Behind the locked door, I squat on my haunches And pull one toke more. Sitting here in the dark The only reality the floor, Closed secure in this womb. A construction of silence And a darkened room. Stoned solo late at night High here in this half light, And nobody with me any more. Just my shadow on the floor And it ain't the same as before. moisture i make you wet, you make me sweat. What are we gonna get? The best thing yet! torn up i got it bad you leave me sad, like i've been had; makes me damn mad! if i tore out my heart and threw it on the floor, would you dance around it? would you ask for more? or would you turn and walk out the door like you have a thousand times before? asscons: ( ) a regular ass ( ) a fat ass (!) a tight ass ( ) a flat ass ( ) a bubble ass ( ) a sore ass ( ! ) an ass that's been around ( ) an ass that's been around even more ( ) kiss my ass ( ) leave my ass alone ( ) a tired ass ( ) a wise ass ( ) an unlucky ass ($ ?_) Dumb Ass ! ! . ^ * !__) a lop-sided ass { } a swishy ass (o O x X zzz o^o 13 ) Money coming out of his ass ( fix------------------ on the sleazy side of town looking for a fix to get down english avenue in the bluff that where i get my stuff yeh the place is rough but hey i am tough got my needle got my spoon be lookin for more very soon they say you could die down here but that's not somethin i fear there ain't no doubt about it i'm quite addicted to the shit and it's easy to see shit got its hooks in me some haiku hard to hack, haiku --------- Hard to hack, haiku. Fitting some form ain't my norm, Poetry by rule. Haiku you do -------------- Be provocative, of feeling evocative, syllabically. some sweet sylph ------------------ Some sweet sylph strolling such symmetric synthesis, svelte synergism. by the bottle bye ------------- Drinking and dying by the bottle by and by, suicide on rye. There are some women ------------- There are some women, take your soul if you let them; best you forget them. Just forget this fight ----------------- Just forget this fight, smile and walk away from you; wish I knew how to. Bob Wright, 2012 daydream the cessation of digression for the possession of progression. there was a name for this. --- "it is well to know these things." the familiar litany broke Ceri's daydream, and he snapped back to the present reality. Moshe, the Elder, had just finished tasting the scents riding the evening air, and the litany signified completion of his olfactory examination. And more importantly his determination that everything smelled satisfactorily. They were well out into the scrub plains now, where danger was likely to be smelled before it was seen. Everywhere was the same drab vegetation, uniformly monotonous to the untrained eye. lamentation Midnight sweat, Soaking wet. Worst one yet, Can't forget. Vietnam vet. Also published . here

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