The 1800’s

Look at that century
Antique and contemporary
Relevant and obsolete

Civil savages emerging
From growing urban heights
Staring at the horizon and wanting that too

Desert theocracies blooming
In soil fertilized
By ancient peoples moved aside

Science and fairytales
Colonizing the zeitgeist
Of a dissonant nation rising

-T. Weeks
(A response to “Reversals”)

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