Hunchback Mountain

Small caves in the mountains
not much time left to find them

not enough lifeboats
20 hours
until the fish start to eat us

all right let's go to heaven BEFORE we die
the rich will always be with us

indulging in the usual
religious rape & pillage

the prophets a figment of bad imagination
and love a labor indeed

of having to shovel
the loveless out of the way

all right let's go to heaven
BEFORE we die

"Twenty hours until the fish started to eat us"
- - - Egyptian ferry disaster survivor

--- From The Tortoise of History
Poems by Anselm Hollo
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