Day 1,712: schtum

Mr Trump’s trial for paying Stormy Daniels, a porn star, to keep schtum in 2016 and disguising this as legal expenses.

Three big risks that might tip America’s presidential election

Artwork of the day 
Silent Night
Paul Delvau
Original Title: Douce Nuit
Date: 1962
Style: Surrealism
Genre: genre painting
Media: oil, canvas
Dimensions: 130 x 185 cm

Word of the day 
schtum: to not say anything about something:

Quote of the day
“To the Unknown Lover





Horrifying, the very thought of you

whoever you are,

future knife to my scar,

stay where you are.



Be handsome, beautiful, drop-dead

gorgeous, keep away.

Read my lips.

No way. OK?



This old heart of mine’s

an empty purse.

These ears are closed.

Don't phone, want dinner,



make things worse.

Your little quirks?

Your wee endearing ways?

What makes you you, all that?



Stuff it, mount it, hang it

on the wall, sell tickets,

I won't come. Get back. Get lost.

Get real. Get a life. Keep schtum.



And just, you must, remember this —

there'll be no kiss, no clinch,

no smoochy dance,

no true romance.

You are Anonymous. You're Who?



Here's not looking, kid, at you.



Carol Ann Duffy, Love Poems (Picador USA, February 1st 2010)”

― Carol Ann Duffy, Love Poems