Somebody once told me
There's a statue in the Gobi
That's mostly gone from over the knees
Visage lying in the sand
With a sneer of cold command
Cuz the sculptor knew how to please

Well the years start coming and they don't stop coming
Empires falling and statues crumbling
Check out the words he left behind
On the statue in the desert that nobody can find:

Hey now, you're a big shot, you think you're so big
Well I'm Ozymandias and look what *I* did

All that's left there is sand
Only shooting stars light the land

“Wow, this blew up. Check out my soundcloud!”

https://m.soundcloud.com/moonmilk/lofi-ozymandias-beats-to-look

Lofi Ozymandias Beats to Look on and Despair

Reading of Ozymandias by Kirsten Tomlinson, Public Domain via archive.org: https://archive.org/details/ozymandias_librivox/ozymandias_of_egypt_shelley_kmt.mp3

@ranjit
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias

Ozymandias - Wikipedia

@ranjit holy shit this is good
@ranjit this is bringing back meteorites from English 1 in college
@ranjit I saw this stolen on Twitter so I thought I’d come here and give you praise in the place of its original publication
@ranjit im fucjing going ballistic. holy shit.
@ranjit yoo do you mind if i cover this?
@Hazelcrazygoatlady not at all, please share the results if you’re up for it!