Chemists

Questions

The questions of the century -

Why don't people want

Pleasure in their music

And happiness in art?

Cretins without talent

Hammering guitars,

Finger painting seniors

Smear kindergarten stuff.

They bastardize the classics

So they seem like something new -

Verdi and Puccini

Can not be resurrected.

Music once was popular

With Porter, Rodgers, Kern -

All of it forgotten

60 years ago.

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Age

Age! The deity's last curse on Man -

Still we kiss the bastard's golden throne,

Doing as we die the most we can

To grasp and keep the little that we own -

In the end, a bit of hair, a bone.

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Maxim

Do as thou wilt -

The only way

To live and flourish

Says TA.

Of all the maxims

Eric said,

That's all any

Body read.

It's your life

So never mind.

Leave no evidence

Behind.

And the effects

Your actions bring -

You can't make him

Feel a thing.

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Chemists

Brilliant men in stiff white smocks

Create the pills, ignore the clocks -

So if your doctor – not as bright -

Has your diagnosis right -

You'll take a pill, go to bed

Believing you are almost dead,

Pass the night in sleepless pain,

Get up feeling good again.

Genius chemists got you through.

They should be the gods for you.

Quiet brains and secular,

They're the only gods there are.

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