Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for January 12, 2020
January 11, 2020
January 13, 2020
Transcript:
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A dim witted comic strip reader lays on his threadbare couch and stumbles across a hitherto unknown comic artist of incredible talent and good humor. He reads the artist’s newfound strip with unfettered joy and happiness looking forward to each day’s strip with hope for a chuckle, expecting countless more as the years stretch ahead into the distance. But, the forlorn reader searches for information about this great artiste only to find he had passed away many years earlier, never to put pen to paper in this plane again. The reader goes back to his worn sofa and cold coffee cup, another small piece of his inadequate soul darkened by despair.