<p>In 2022, the war of the sexes has been raging since times immemorial. With the help of renowned podcaster Jack Mason (lotus_point), I channeled the spirit of Perfume Nationalist (a mystery wind which comes from the East) to reach a heartwarming Christmas truce, in which the spiritual man and spiritual woman lay down their weapons and cross over no man's land to celebrate the three transcendentals from the trenches of death. She delivers a moving final eulogy to the CCP virus, before launching into a polemic against the cowardly haters and losers who would thwart the incipient spring out of the resentment in their souls. In the end, men and women sit around a fire and laugh about the foul dreams of the night before, and everything is just.</p>

By the Lantern with Dave Greene

Blue, blue is the grass about the river
And the willows have overfilled the close garden.
And within, the mistress, in the midmost of her youth.
White, white of face, hesitates, passing the door.
Slender, she puts forth a slender hand;

And she was a courtezan in the old days,
And she has married a sot,
Who now goes drunkenly out
And leaves her too much alone.

Labor of Love with Jack Mason