Saturday, January 2, 2010

EPITAPH ON A TYRANT, by W.H. Auden

Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after,

and the poetry he invented was easy to understand;

He knew human folly like the back of his hand,

and was greatly interested in armies and fleets;

When he laughed, respectable senators burst

with laughter, and when he cried the little children

died in the streets.

2 comments:

  1. Dedicado a los tiranos de Cuba.

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  2. Dedicated to the Cuban dictators: Fidel Castro, Raul Castro and all the Cubans that allowed 51 years of dictatorship without doing anything about it.

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