“Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” ~ Winston churchill

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they flooded the coliseum

and staged
for the people’s amazement
an entire naval battle
complete with greek fire
and sunken sailors

at a public cost as colossal
as the structure itself

while the populace
lacked bread

unimaginable today

unless one vacations
in las vegas

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This poet is physically disabled. Public housing being insufficient to her medical and creative needs, she is presently living, in order to continue working, in her minivan, publishing all of her works using one thumb on the touch screen of her smartphone, surviving at an income of a fraction of her nation’s poverty level. She would treasure any donation you might care to offer ~ http://www.UgiftABLE.com ● #72D-31S.

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