Mastodawn

I have read a statement
that “a whole civilization
will die tonight,
never to be brought back again,”
and as I read that statement
and as I reread that statement
I cannot shake the feeling
that the civilization
from which that statement comes
is one that is already dead.

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Frank Sonderborg 1d ago

@plaguepoems
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

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Frank Sonderborg 1d ago

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I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:

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MFennVT 1d ago

@plaguepoems Most of the white men in that civilization, yes. The rest of us are fighting like hell.

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dasgrueneblatt 1d ago

@plaguepoems 💚

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Darwin Woodka 1d ago

@plaguepoems

As Gandhi is said to have joked about western civilization “I think it would be a good idea"

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Rosy Maths 1d ago

@plaguepoems That's not the statement that anyone even remotely civilized issues. Spot on.

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Jen, MPH :verified::1d ago

@plaguepoems if you have a R House rep, please call them ASAP and ask them to take nuclear bomb control away from Trump!

Capitol switchboard - (202) 224-3121, ask to be connected to your member’s office.

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Keith Dawson 1d ago

@plaguepoems

Croesus consulted the oracle of Delphi, who told him that he would "destroy a great empire" should he attack Cyrus. He did, and the empire he destroyed was his own.

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

Croesus - Wikipedia