Thursday, March 10, 2011

America is still temporary

Watching the collapse accelerate got me thinking of an article I wrote in 2006...

I’m sure the Aztecs, the Incas, the Romans, and the Mongols were pretty damn pleased with themselves and figured what they were doing could never end. Yet, like Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias,” they are ancient history. (Shelley and his brand of poetry, alas, are also prehistoric.) The Ottoman Empire ran longer than Cats, for chrissake, and all they left is a place to put your feet after a long day of trading pork bellies.

Read the full article here

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Another of my recent photos:

The patron saint of bran?

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Poem: “haiku compromise"


Posted by Mickey Z on 03/10 at 05:25 AM
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