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Saddam Hussein's historical significance death poem in Genghis Lotus Poetry Collection, a selection of poems free to read online. Webmaster for this site is poet Hugh Cook, born in Britain, educated in New Zealand, and the author of, amongst other works, the fantasy series Chronicles of an Age of Darkness.
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It is all Water under the bridge by now. Andy Warhol's medical misadventure Has long since been forgotten. The hospital may, Or perhaps may not, Have been at fault. I pass no judgment. Here on the dark side of the moon The restaurants, Once certain of their profit, Lie vacant to the windless realms of dust. Invisible behind the lunar mass The planet Earth is minus cappuccino, The olives eaten and the last baklava gone. It is more than a thousand centuries Since latex last had use. In Pompeii's reburied streets Nobody is busy at the dictionaries. IBM is over. And Google? Gone. Great things have perished, Though the planetary ocean still persists, And still holds sway. The Great North Sea, A lesser water, No longer remembers its ice. The trilobites are still, Unfortunately, Extinct. Rome, like Warhol, has lapsed from view. Caligula Is no longer the toast of Broadway. Messalina's antics No longer have the attention Of the chattering classes. Madonna No longer has a shrine in Babylon. The great Kenyan city of Obama is no more. Five thousand million years from now The sun, Exhausted, Will go out. What happens then is, At this date, uncertain. |
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