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The Colour Of Civilization

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and your mind resounds not with a seraphic "doh",

only their rustle. Life, that no one dares

to appraise, like that gift horse's mouth,

bares its teeth in a grin at each

encounter. What gets left of a man amounts

to a part. To his spoken part. To a part of speech.

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Joseph Brodsky (1940 -1996) Soviet-born exiled poet and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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The Colour Of Civilization

As dumb bombs rain down on a historic and modern, 21st-century acclaimed European city

Neither claims of surreptitiously stuffed ballot boxes, nor, brown and black illegal votes; election fraud

Pass muster as a pretext, manufactured problem, smokescreen, or shiny object

For naked white-on-white, cruel aggression, barbaric violence and slaughter of innocents

The brutal scenes of an unrelenting, unjust and senseless war, mocking every accoutrement, ease, and comfort, of a society; judged advanced and admirable.

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