<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=520753" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Machinery For Raising Water</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Great passage of water<br>Through pipes, branching from the Euphrates: <br>That was Nebuchadnezzar's gift to his twerking wife Amytis, <br>Who longed for trees, <br>Who longed for Medea, <br>And its heady fragrance.<br>Strabo's map of the world, <br>Going all the way to India, <br>In 17 volumes it is said, <br>Was a product of his squinty eyes, <br>So closely set he could watch Babylon from Athens.<br>He could also see the back of his thining hair, <br>Like a hare, <br>And divined the sizes of the sun and the moon, <br>With which he discussed with Augustus, <br>Over black wine, <br>That as well as the mysterious perfection of Imperialism, <br>While Augustus drooled<br>And the Empire slopped up his spit, <br>Just like the pipes<br>Driving high<br>The gangly waters of the Euphrates.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Stan+Petrovich">Stan Petrovich</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=520753" data-title="Machinery For Raising Water de Stan Petrovich" data-description="Great passage of water Through pipes, branching from the Euphrates: That was Nebuchadnezzar's gift to his twerking wife Amytis, Who longed for trees, Who longed for Medea, And its heady fragrance. Strabo's map of the world, Going all the way ..."></div> </div> </div>

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