Louis XVI Considers His Good Fortune [Today's News Poem, November 4, 2010]
Accustomed to excess refinement,
Pause and admire the consequence
Mirrored as portrait: the fortunate.
Versailles is the soul's own reflection:
Glory requires one's willfully
Ignorant, urgent, impulsive, harsh.
If not for one's urges and instincts,
Who would not lay down and perish?
Hunger and loneliness animate
And fear does the rest—and if not, then it's boredom.
"The organisers of Thursday’s anti-US demonstration, in their final declaration, said that Iran considers “America as the Great Satan and enemy number one.”"
—Telegraph.co.uk, 9:31AM GMT 04 Nov 2010
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/8109535/Iran-stages-mass-protest-on-anniversary-of-US-embassy-capture.html
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