"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it". GEORGE SANTAYANA
"History repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce". KARL MARX
"As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly". PROVERBS 26:11
AFTERMATH
There is the heaped equality
of spectacles, the comfort
of linked arms -
wire, gold and tortoiseshell,
the white opacity
of the tilted lens.
There is the kicking scramble
of empty shoes, piled
like bean pods, shelled
of movement, scuffed and dusty
from the longest walk
in the world.
There is the dead-leaf clothing,
the empty-handed gloves
and headless hats and caps;
the hanks of hair, bagged,
sprung teeth in boxes,
stamped and labelled.
Bones we know;
we scramble up and out
of the millennium
on bones. These clothes,
these artefacts endure,
unfinished, unconsumed.
10:40:32 PM 
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