July 4, 2006
Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has written another excellent and frightening article on the Bush Administration's plans for war with Iran. [Click here to read it.][1]+++The Fall of Rome
The piers are pummelled by the waves; In a lonely field the rain Lashes an abandoned train; Outlaws fill the mountain caves.Fantastic grow the evening gowns; Agents of the Fisc pursue Absconding tax-defaulters through The sewers of provincial towns.Private rites of magic send The temple prostitutes to sleep; All the literati keep An imaginary friend.Cerebrotonic Cato may Extol the Ancient Disciplines, But the muscle-bound Marines Mutiny for food and pay.![][2]Caesar's double-bed is warm As an unimportant clerk Writes I DO NOT LIKE MY WORK On a pink official form.Unendowed with wealth or pity, Little birds with scarlet legs, Sitting on their speckled eggs, Eye each flu-infected city.Altogether elsewhere, vast Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss, Silently and very fast.
W.H. Auden from Collected Poems: Auden+++ [1]: http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060710fa_fact [2]: http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a81/kos102/2006/01%20June/Sunday%203/bush_mosaic.jpg
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quinno (Patrick Quinn) says...
"Cerebrotonic"!
Auden...
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