DEC 16, Canadiana: stand on guard (Canada): "fifty-first state"

 a) Review of material posted on December 16 in previous years ...

2020: holiday verse, Advent #3, OEDILFian limericks)  
2021: new world palindromes, #48 (wordplay map)

2022: patients and maladies, Graves' disease (poem) 
2023: braincheck, homunculi (poem)

b) Today's Offering (Dec 16, 2024):

   

Authors' Note:  The Canadian author regrets the unapologetic tone of this diatribe. See the verse speech borrowings. 

This particular verse is also a member of a 'trio of imperialistic nonsense'.  To see the other verses, click HERE for "Panama Canal Zone", and HERE for "Greenland".

Collected poems in the series "Stand on Guard" can be viewed HERE.

More generally, you could peruse poems, pictures and diverse nonsense related to Canada on the post "Canadiana" on our full-service blog  "Edifying Nonsense".

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