TWO SILLY COOKS WITH A BAD RECIPE

“Two cooks spoil the broth”
English Proverb

How man’s children,
Brought forth in sorrow,
Till the earth to eat their bread
By the sweat of their face,
And in the name of god
Shed each other’s blood
That fills every furrow,
And wreak havoc that turns the earth
Into a mass of reeking red mud
On which they steal, and beg and borrow
And fool themselves and each other
With promises of a happy tomorrow…
And the Serpent sneers at us
From his dark burrow,
And the Lord says
“Goddamn it, something’s gone wrong
But weren’t my plans
precise & thorough?”

جاودانگی

مغزهای خالی، مغزهای پر
قلب‌‌های خالی، قلب‌های پر
زهدان‌های خالی، زهدان‌های پر
دست‌های خالی، دست‌های پر

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