| Beautiful city, the centre and crater of | | | | |
| European confusion, | | | | Which cannot erase any the things ha' been |
| | | | done; |
| O you with your passionate shriek for the | | | | |
| rights of an equal humanity, | | | | In the name of God as side, side as God; |
| | | | Nothing new is under the blood-swollen sun. |
| How often your Re-volution has proven but | | | | |
| E-volution | | | | This seemed timely due to the recent huge |
| | | | riots in Paris. Looked like all them French |
| Roll'd again back on itself in the tides of a | | | | Moslems decided to get uppity. Strangely |
| civic insanity! | | | | enough, it was written quite a little while |
| | | | ago, altogether. The reason I used the |
| And now, my version: | | | | Spanish word for city, "ciudad," instead of |
| | | | the French word for city, is due to the act |
| Beautiful Ciudad | | | | of terrorism awhile back where an entire |
| | | | train was blown up somewhere along the tracks |
| By Karen Cole Peralta | | | | to Valencia, Spain. |
| | | | |
| Wondrous City of Lights, Parisian originalle, | | | | I believe myself that we are now altogether |
| | | | in the wasted throes of World War III. And |
| Bent to the War, Moslem Jew & Christian | | | | even though the current Middle East conflict |
| banal. | | | | began in the 1940s, the actual ME battle has |
| | | | been raging between the three major Western |
| Torture and hedonism lend to your spired Tour | | | | religious groups for centuries - no, |
| d'Eiffel, | | | | millennia. It will be a long time before we |
| | | | see any end to what is going on, if we ever |
| The results of all tolling church bells | | | | in fact do so. |
| medieval. | | | | |