The age demanded that we sing <br />And cut away our tongue. <br /> <br />The age demanded that we flow <br />And hammered in the bung. <br /> <br />The age demanded that we dance <br />And jammed us into iron pants. <br /> <br />And in the end the age was handed <br />The sort of shit that it demanded.<br /><br />Ernest Hemingway<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-age-demanded/
