<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=432138" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An October Evening at the Imperial Tavern</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sky's a fiery Turner smear. The sun<br>Has set. Two jets have made an X above<br>Where it has gone. The men in camo<br>Crowd the bar to parrot phrases they've<br>Been fed by parrots paid by plutocrats.<br>The barmaids wriggle close with beers<br>And flash their cleavage for their tips.<br>They dream of severing the hands which<br>Pay and save, and grope. Everywhere, <br>A sense that what we'd had is gone is <br>Growing stronger. Everywhere, the end <br>Is near, the titties fake, the saviors sordid.<br>Plutocrats, in pleasanter surroundings, <br>Still will celebrate, but we can see the<br>Sun has set. The X will mark where<br>We have fallen. All the fancy phrases<br>We had used to frame a reign which<br>Didn't last so long as we had thought<br>Are ringing hollow. Hear them now.<br>We're Egypt, England, ancient Rome, <br>Somewhere the kids will read about<br>In textbooks, just a smear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+Beck">Lawrence Beck</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=432138" data-title="An October Evening at the Imperial Tavern de Lawrence Beck" data-description="The sky's a fiery Turner smear. The sun Has set. Two jets have made an X above Where it has gone. The men in camo Crowd the bar to parrot phrases they've Been fed by parrots paid by plutocrats. The barmaids wriggle close with beers And flash their..."></div> </div> </div>

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