Some eyes spy prying into your very soul yet these are like Lord Sauron with his slit of an eye who himself has no love for those who spy and pry and others peer out at you sneering through lace curtains whether Scottish or Nottingham London or Madras it does no good to try to hold inward and outward most marvellously together https://books.google.ca/books?id=B5IMxvXIVqcC&pg=PT650&lpg=PT650&dq=%22queen%27s+quarterly%22+and+%22volume+90%22&source=bl&ots=APbndR3bD8&sig=hH5n5EdszsPHxie-kmwifQWH9YQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjMnK60tPPcAhVGmlkKHbFBAhgQ6AEwA3oECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22queen's%20quarterly%22%20and%20%22volume%2090%22&f=true which is what poets and ironists do when they chance upon strange contrarieties or happen upon the subtle humour of a backward glance but happenstance the way property is to possession is nine tenths of the law and possession is never simple unless to those who sm...

Give us this Day is the online creative journal of Kurtis Kitagawa, PhD (Edinburgh), MPhil (Oxford), MA (Chicago), BA First Class Honours (Calgary), who, withal, considers himself a student of history. Check daily for freshly composed essays and offbeat creative writing inspired by a life spent in universities, government, and business. Job offers gratefully accepted. Alternative facts welcome, and will not be burned. Nor will their ashes be used as eye shadow!