Questions Of A Worker Reading History
I stumbled upon this excellent poem today and thought I'd share it; incredibly thought provoking! "Questions Of A Worker Reading History" Who built seven-gated Thebes? Books list the names of kings. Did kings haul the blocks and bricks? And Babylon, destroyed so many times Who built her up so many times? Where Are the houses where the construction-workers Of gold-gleaming Lima lived? Where did the masons go at nightfall When they finished mortaring the Wall of China? High Rome is full of victory arches. Who put the up? Whom did the Casesars triumph over? Did chronicled Byzantium build only palces for its inhabitants? In fabulous Atlantis the drowned bellowed in the night when the sea swallowed them up after their slaves. Young Alexander conquered India Just he? Caesar beat the Gauls. Didn't he at least have a cook with him? Philip of Spain wept when his Armada Went down. Did no one else? Frederick the Great won out in the Seven Years War. Who won besides? A victory on...