death wish

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Re: death wish

If you speak the truth
liars will conspire against you
and you will be outnumbered
a thousand to one.

[arabaliozian]

Re: death wish

AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
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Americans are the only people on earth
who feel the need to remind themselves regularly
that theirs is a “beautiful” country.
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As for our own favorite poem
(“Yes im anoush Hayastani”):
it is a paraphrase or parody
of a Pushkin sonnet about Russia.
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Armenia has this in common with Ireland:
it is “a good place to die.”
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Speaking of Armenia at the turn of the last century,
an English traveler (may have been Lynch)
is reported to have said:
“What magnificent landscapes,
what miserable people!”
or words to that effect.
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Armenia: a place where each crisis --
war, revolution, earthquake, epidemic,
mass starvation, regime change--
is followed by a new exodus.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: death wish

The French beheaded their king,
the Russians executed their czar,
and the Italians hanged Mussolini.
Our leaders have managed to survive
because they brainwashed us to believe
we owe our survival to them.
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Re: death wish

”Before you shout ‘fire!’ in a crowded theater, make sure the path to the exist is clear.”