The plunge of civilization into this abyss of blood and darkness… is a thing that so gives away the whole long age during which we have supposed the world to be, with whatever abatement, gradually bettering, that to have to take it all now for what the treacherous years were all the while really making for and meaning is too tragic for any words.
– Henry James – 1914 – on the day England entered WWI
The world always gets turned upside down
I see that and know it
It’s the way everything works
Always has worked
It’s a cycle
I studied history
The facts are clear
Cause and effect
Random occurrences
A trampoline of ups and downs
Forever
Intellectually Henry I knew it
I thought you wrote real pretty
But then I moved on
A footnote, an addendum, something that happened
To someone else
but I didn’t get it Henry
and
Wish I didn’t get it now.
Gene G. McLaughlin 2016
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