dear friends

the bellowing beasts are roving, the sapphire hour calls, the glint of the waves are breaking, cascades of concrete fall, the boiling heat is quaking, the timorous thousands squall, a message that needs no taking, an opulence gone too far, when the world is ready for light, and the day has gone to night, there will be a voice to keep us safe, when the world is right again, the sea is a battered mistress, the arches of progress fall, our method has met its maker, the fever afflicts us all, the cannons have lost their passion, ships are wrecked in a stall, entropy sweeps the carpet, thirsty she drinks us all