SARGON

[constantine]

WE SWEPT ACROSS THE LAND BETWEEN THE RIVERS

THE TIGRIS, SWIFT AS AN ARROW

EUPHRATES, MOTHER OF GRASS

MANY FELL BENEATH

OUR SCYTHED CHARIOT WHEELS

MOTHERS IN LAMENTATION

CROPS DESPOILED

GRAIN SCATTERED IN THE WIND

THROUGH THE GATE OF ISHTAR WE WHEELED

SHACKLED THE GODDESS

FACE PAINTED WITH OCHRE

TEARS OF LAPIS LAZULI

WE RAZED THE ZIGGURAT

AND STOLE THEIR ALPHABET

NOTHING WILL BE AS IT WAS

[stilltrucking]

a far cry from today's whiz bang push button warfare of armed droans

Did you ever play the old Sargon chess game for the apple IIe.
Loved that thing

Loved your lovely poem.

You made war sound so lovely
nice work
somebody on creative called it passionate
yes.

[judih]

lush poem
though the babylonian whores were wrong place, wrong time
the lapis lazuli and river banks are still singing

[constantine]

thanks judih. there are historical inaccuracies. i don't believe sargon had chariots either. still, one can take liberties in war and poetry.

[judih]

oh, thank you for the mothers
i can hear the screams
and ashes

[stilltrucking]

j wrote

though the babylonian whores were wrong place, wrong time

yeah that is the problem with modern warfare
just like them whores
children in the wrong place at the wrong time
a cluster fuck
a cluster bomb

[constantine]

industrialized warfare - neo assyrian - total

[stilltrucking]

"neo assyrian"

you killing me constantine

I got to have that
In fact it is already in my personal thesaurus

what do I have to do now

when I steal from judih I usually put it in quotes like this
"the winds erase the place" without a footnote,

never mind
just a point of scholarship I suppose

[constantine]

when the assyrians got pissed, you were in in trouble deep. it was like getting nuked - not even a brick on a brick - like you were never even there.

[stilltrucking]

"Carthago delenda est"

and the romans ploughed salt into the earth

I guess they were more cold blooded.

You can always stack them bricks up again
what is the half life of plutonium

talk about neo assyrian.

Bomb Bomb Iran

[constantine]

when in rome only the faces change.

[stilltrucking]

Janus that two faced bastard

[constantine]

illuminate and elaborate on the janus deal - january and ?

[stilltrucking]

I will have to google
Clay was talking about his last name last week His last name is January
The Roman god Janus, two faced one for time of peace one for war.

I think that is right.

Yes here is an image and link

http://www.livius.org/a/1/romanempire/c ... 25-212.JPG

http://www.livius.org/a/italy/rome/arch ... janus.html

You knew that I am sure, I guess you were asking about Clay's last name.