Poem
‘Down with Beauty! Long Live Death!’
by Geoff Page •
‘Down with Beauty! Long Live Death!’
Two gods share a single breath.
Their warriors can all agree
on how to circumscribe the free
and are themselves in turn confined
by being of the one small mind.
A Muslim and a Catholic phrase
may equally distress our days;
the latter from the Spanish war,
the former sure the hip’s a whore.
‘Down with Beauty! Down with Life!’
All throats are naked to the knife.
As holy men sweep up the dead
their two gods shake a single head.
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