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