We choose to do this <br />as a society <br />as a race <br />we clamber for bread <br />and circuses like Romans <br />already corrupted <br />lounging in our spas <br />barking orders <br />throwing undesirables <br />to the lions because <br />we don't really know why <br />but we do it anyway <br />we live for it somehow <br />it comforts us <br />to wield this power <br />like crafty would be gods <br />creating chance <br />and circumstances <br />handing out candy <br />lording over life and death<br /><br />Jeffrey SpahrSummers<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ignoring-history/
