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‘Down with Beauty! Long Live Death!’

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May 2003, no. 251

‘Down with Beauty! Long Live Death!’

by
May 2003, no. 251

‘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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