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Death of Saddam Hussein<br />

Since Tilsitʹs raft two centuries are passʹd<br />

& all has been remarkable sithen,<br />

They thought that peace, now peace settles at last,<br />

Upon the warring winter‐time of men;<br />

Saddam Hussein<br />

Has melted with the snows,<br />

By Allied justice slain, the doors of Janus close.<br />

Tho conflict shall still haunt Iraq<br />

His hanging symbolizes<br />

The age of Mars tied in a sack<br />

With all his crude disguises<br />

& tossʹd upon the Potomac,<br />

Drowning with the Kaisers ‐<br />

So this is the way that the world wars die<br />

Not with a bang, but a whimper, a sigh.<br />

How many fought how many died<br />

Manʹs future to secure,<br />

Tyrants defied by lands allied<br />

Made living lives more pure,<br />

Far from those ravages of war our ancestors endure.<br />

Baghdad<br />

December<br />

2006<br />

Poeticus<br />

I am a man, many have gone before<br />

& will come yet, to thee I trust this song,<br />

Pray let her be a bright & open door<br />

Shewing the world how once the world went wrong;<br />

My soul enisled,<br />

Occasionalism!<br />

Some gentle spirit smiled on my monumentum.<br />

I would the world should hear this song<br />

& sing it down the ages,<br />

So when the epic, proud & long,<br />

Rennaissance ever stages,<br />

Fresh poets may wander among<br />

All these antique pages<br />

& find a thing or two that they could use<br />

In their own conversations with the muse.<br />

Namore shall Homers chaunt warʹs praise<br />

Or Owens curse itʹs game,<br />

Halycon days or psychic craze,<br />

Manʹs glory or his shame,<br />

An ever‐living testament to what our world became.<br />

Malta<br />

March<br />

2007

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