No One Shall Build Tall Things In the New Dark (mystic, recall)

[Sunstone]

Nine of the twelve things you hear about life
Were designed to sell you something,
And the last three are contested
By armies with cannon.

Your side lost before you were born
And the refugees are sick, sometimes huddled,
Trying not to recall how Beethoven’s joy
Became an antacid commercial:
Some in shock denied it even happened.

They sell cola in the schools here.
And those adults who hold your hand
With too firm a grasp least you stray
Walk you through the Bible and Thomas Paine
For the money it brings.

You yourself walk among whores so cutting stupid
They smirk at you how they came out on top
Getting money for selling you their diseases.

We’re in a new Dark Age, Babe,
And Rome’s a rumor:
No one shall build tall things
For a thousand years.

[Mystic-als]

Sunstone - " And Rome’s a rumor:
No one shall build tall things
For a thousand years."

I like this phrase!
nice

[Sunstone]

Originally Posted by Mystic-als

Sunstone - " And Rome’s a rumor:
No one shall build tall things
For a thousand years."

I like this phrase!
nice

I'm very glad to hear that, Mystic. When I read this poem, I think of it as like a piece of jewerly with a setting and a jewel. That is, The poem is a setting, or set up perhaps, for those last three lines, IMO.

[michel]

Originally Posted by Sunstone

I'm very glad to hear that, Mystic. When I read this poem, I think of it as like a piece of jewerly with a setting and a jewel. That is, The poem is a setting, or set up perhaps, for those last three lines, IMO.

I agree; it's a fantastic piece of work.

[Scarlett Wampus]

Its great yeh

Methinks the New Darkness is really the Old Darkness. We tend to view the past with rosy tinted glasses. Decadence has always been with us.

[Mystic-als]

I know I've already said this... BUT!
This is so well written. I've read it a few times now and those lines still send me to places far beyond my dreams. To long for people I haven't met.
Such a great piece of work.

P.S Sunstone - whats better than camel dung?

[Sunstone]

I personally believe giraffe crap is better than camel dung, Mystic, but there are respectable and well meaning folks who I'm sure would beg to disagree with me on that.

[Mystic-als]

Can we perhaps make a scale from maybe ant dung to King Kong dung.
This would be a great way to rate our work! We'll call it the Sunstone dung rating.
What you think?