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Sedimental Journey
On its plains where grew fine plants Lamentation reeds now grow.
Circa 4300 years (“where go?”)
“gone” -Sargon of Akkad arm wrestled Sumerian city-states from Umma, then stormed across her Fertile Valley Between Two Rivers controlled trade from the silver mines of Anatolia/ to the lapis lazuli mines of Badakhshan from the cedar forests of Lebanon to the Gulf of Oman fortresses were built/ to silo imperial wheat irrigation canals extended bureaucratic reach fed palaces and temples imperial taxes
then, like a hundred-year old cookie the sky crumbled/ withering storms cut through wheat fields coated in black dust desert auroras lower lats pink and purple ghost dance on corrugated magnetic fields/ southwestern Europe to central Asia
Iberia to Crete Egypt’s Old Kingdom towns of Palestine great cities of the Indus dusted
sudden abandon collapse remains. 300-year cottonmouthful of erosion deposits no trace Ur/banality. Only above 3 centuries of strata later do ash, trash, and monumental apparitions haunt anew same o’ same go
2 millennia before Bethlehem people like Abram fled the Assyrian plains en masse sudden caravans herders and marauders imperial deserters, soldier and priest “camp followers” dust clouds of slavers and “labor” refugees, all escapees from the kill grids once called city streets and walls…
a thin layer of volcanic ash sprinkle the last Akkadian mud bricks
under an 8 inch-thick cap of fine sand testifies to centuries of global drought before cockcrow Hongshan (“round heaven, square earth”) triangle collapsed. No word yond Midnight Sea where dragons be serpents feathered jury still out… remains tight-lipped as a jungle pyramid cut off and overrunneth with old-growth jaguars and Homeland guillotines carrying a big “We’re Number One!” shtick for review. No set up just gobble gulp go.
The 3rd Dynasty of Ur was last attempt to revive Sumer back in the day before the great famine & drought like when Tom Jones back in the day on world tour came on stage every woman in the front row crossed her legs.
now it’s all eye on you stay in your homes FBI warnings like video piracy come out with your hands on your head 5 years in prison ¼ million-dollar fines
follow the movie don’t mess with our cut
wands whittled from holly wood wave fluid Druidlike spells cast mass market cast mass media cast of thousands pulling strings pulling feathers American Bald Mockingbird he he he Fidelity har har har Vanguard hey twitter tweet State Street BlackRock da bomb go long, NSA: PRISM A-OK for liftoff
making a living let alone living a making can no way like slickass Zombie movies prep anyone for the headshot it’s in the clause apparently ’cuz all we do is bite infecting those we bite devouring what little is left after the hail I mean aren’t we just asking for it ?
only Corporations are people
profits not prophets
mitts off Big Soma.
