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Gunslinger
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since 1999-10-09
Posts 901
TX, USA

0 posted 2010-09-17 02:18 PM


“The victors write the histories,”
Is what I have heard said.
No interviews from losers,
Or comments from the dead:

When writing from perspective-
On the vagaries of life…
Of contradictions there’s no shortage,
Wrong conclusions, they are rife.

So I cannot help but wonder how…
In perhaps a hundred years-
Will posterity regard our time,
As a comedy of fears?

Environmentalists are screaming,
And the “Hawks” are crying, “War!”
And the troops out in the desert…
Wonder what their fighting for-

The virologists are tweaking-
All their precious little germs,
And the politicians’ rhetoric-
Is ambiguous in terms.

It is simply off the charts now-
Our nations’ deficit…
And moral obligations,
Are so very seldom met…

“Much knowledge doth bring madness-“
Just as ignorance is bliss…
So the moral of this monologue-
Is “Accept life as it is.”


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Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California
1 posted 2010-09-17 02:25 PM


"Much knowledge doth bring madness
Just as ignorance is bliss." A true pearl of wisdom from this wise and accurate portait of today's world.
                                 Ida

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