“There is need for shrewdness here: if anyone is clever enough he may interpret the number of the beast: it is the number of a man, the number 666” Revelations 13: 18 <br /> <br />Yawn, so many stupid TV and radio <br />Nutcases going on about devils and evil numbers <br />Numerologists raving about combinations <br />Feminists talking about how 666 has something to do with women <br />Mothers fearing their new born is Satan <br />The Omen re-released to make money out of superstition <br />“it is the number of a man” <br />Who is this beast? <br />Gosh, the first beast has seven heads – <br />Strangely it would look a bit like the hills of Rome <br />And the second beast – two horns, <br />Just like the crown of an emperor. <br />And how would they have written 666? <br />Using Hebrew letters the name Caeser Nero <br />Adds up to 666. <br /> <br />All this crap is just politics – <br />Rome and the emperor are the enemy <br /> <br />I think of all those poor rebellious teenagers <br />Throughout the years scrawling 666 on toilet doors <br />Cutting it into their hands with blunt pocket knives <br />If only Nero knew what a misguided fan club he would have <br />He would fiddle and laugh while common sense burnt. <br /> <br />And poor old St John – beware of politicians <br />Becomes some sort of terror campaign for the stupid <br />He did say “anyone who is clever” <br />Sadly in the 21st century that is so very, very few. <br />These days he would have to be more plain: <br />“The enemy is in the bushes…” <br /> <br />(6 June 2006)<br /><br />Jeff Hobbs<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/06-06-06/
