Thus far , it was the greatest heist
In
the Russian history after Christ.
Some call me eager, some call me zealous ;
I just like big figures with their crowd of zeroes."
1908 is a real bore
though it provides a new high in gore
by means of an earthquake in the Southern part
of Calabria, Italy. Still, the world of art
tries to replace those one hundred fifty
thousand victims with things as nifty
as Monet's depiction of the Ducal Palace
in Venice, or with Isadora's galas,
or with the birth of Ian Fleming: later
his books'll sell in the millions : to fill the crater.
In
the World Series Chicago's again a winner .
In
the Balkans, Bosnia and Herzegovina
are taken by Austria (for what it took
it will pay somewhat later with its Archduke).
And the fountain pen is in vogue worldwide.
The gas of helium's liquified
in Holland which means the rising of
that flat country a bit above
sea level, which means thoughts vertical.
The king and the crown prince are killed in Portugal,
for horizontality's sake no doubt.
Also , the first Model T is out
in Dearborn to roam our blissful quarters
trailed by the news that General Motors
is incorporated. The English Edward
and Russia's Nicholas make an effort
to know each other aboard a yacht .
The Germans watch it but don't react–
or do, but that cannot be photographed .
And the Republic calls on William Taft.
The man of the year is a German scientist
Paul Ehrlich . He digs bacterias
and sires immunology. All the
sapiens
owe a lot to his theories.
