very good, BillC.
Eh, not a bad sendup of PB Shelley at all, Bill.
I think the bit from the original about the shattered visage with the "frown and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command" is a pretty good description of Cheney myself.
More pointedly, I think the original is an apt allegory/cautionary tale depicting the future remnants of the America that too many people see as the be all/end all of human civilization.
"Colossal Wreck, Boundless and Bare." Yep, seems to fit.
ugh, Elizabethan Brit Lit. . . [/shudders] 
AVQ,
If memory serves, you studied English via the Little, Brown Book?
English and grammar, yep. But they crammed a year of English Lit. down our throats as well. Wesley was the guy's name, right?
What I remember most is that on the first day of class he said if you always remember that for the English, life has been a sh*t sandwich for a thousand years or so then you can understand what they were so suicidal about in their writing.
I also remember that he gave me a lousy grade when I did a comparitive essay that concluded Ian Anderson was a more lyrical poet than Shakespear, so what the heck did he know?
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