St. Mark's Day

St. Mark's DayFilth, food and fornication. Just a typical bug's lifeTrisha and the kids are off at Flyworld®--"400 Square Feet of Shit," as the brochures proclaim. It's something of a tradition for those of our lineage round about St. Mark's Day, April 25, when there's a palpable warming of the breeze outside and the not too distant smell of summer hanging above the lawn and the blackthorn hedgerows and the lime trees. Maybe I'll join them later--though, then again, maybe not, because...