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Mare Nostrum

Mare Nostrum
On the coast of Augusta, in Cecilia this wonderful sea,
 the bluest of turquoise, transparent and I saw fish play. 
Blood and bloated corpses have made the sea less pretty 
and fish nibbles on cadavers of those who tried to cross 
the sea to escape the lunacy we created in Libya. 

A president short of stature but with inflated ego plus 
philosopher idiot, two men were responsible this disaster 
of a war just to get rid of a dictator one of them had lent 
money of the other who should not be left out of his confine 
of academia, he should have in hidden in a university writing 
books only historians take a passing interest in.

As it is the impossible vain man get feted, all because he is 
an intellectual and wears a velvet jacket and clean collars.
My old Mafia friend Thomas the knife, has invited me to 
Augusta, I will go there but not swim the hazy sea, but we 
will eat langouste, drink child wine and talk about the days
when philosophers and presidents left us alone to kill only 
when needed and never the innocent.

Copyright © Jan Oskar Hansen




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