Fauxku Choo Choo (the play's the thing)

[rayheinrich]

    all ways to peace
    look into
    tomorrowland


    this land of graves
    its grieving parents -
    praying for tomorrow

[just mercedes]

this land of graves
its grieving parents -
praying for tomorrow


all land is full of bones
and every person grieves
tomorrow it's their turn

[rayheinrich]

    all land is full of bones
    and every person grieves
    tomorrow it's their turn


    bones and flesh and blood -
    there's no glory in this land of ours
    just soup

[Achebe]

Just soup, and you
and the food truck of faraway land -
I think we owe it still.

[RiverNotch]

Just soup, and you
and the food truck of faraway land -
I think we owe it still.

Don't you know, Steve?
It's hard to eat hot soup without
whistling, without
putting your lips together and

[ellajam]

Don't you know, Steve?
It's hard to eat hot soup without
whistling, without
putting your lips together and

coarsely rubbing
all the right places—
Lauren's voice

[Magpie]

coarsely rubbing
all the right places—
Lauren's voice

coarse fishing
in the wrong place-
it's a fine line

[rayheinrich]

    coarse fishing
    in the wrong place-
    it's a fine line


    a sword's fine line
    drawn from head to breast -  
    Toshiro Mifune

[Achebe]

a sword's fine line
drawn from head to breast -
Toshiro Mifune

Samurai -
you have drawn your sword so well
it's practically a wire.

[ellajam]

Samurai -
you have drawn your sword so well
it's practically a wire.

tightly drawn wires
vibrate— diamonds
sing across the lake

[John]

tightly draw wires
vibrate— diamonds
sing across the lake

Diamonds sing
Neil's family
in harmony

[rayheinrich]

    Diamonds sing
    Neil's family
    in harmony


    puberty has never been so callous
    your harmony sings only to your phallus -
    Justin Bieber

[Magpie]

puberty has never been so callous
your harmony sings only to your phallus - 
Justin Bieber

This Just in, making head-lines today -

• Corduroy pillows
  
• Man who lost phallus also loses half a foot
  
• Bieber-mania reaches Grimsby
  

[Achebe]

Corduroy pillows
Man who lost phallus also loses half a foot
Bieber-mania reaches Grimsby

Grimsby Roylott -
phallus head kills nerd pop's new sensation-
The Spectacled Boyband.

[Wjames]

Grimsby Roylott -
phallus head kills nerd pop's new sensation-
The Spectacled Boyband.

The spectacled boyband
lip syncs Dostoyevsky over two chords -
horny teens get epilepsy.

[just mercedes]

The spectacled boyband
lip syncs Dostoyevsky over two chords -
horny teens get epilepsy.

Spectacled Owl Dostoyevsky quit the band
when Spectacled Bear and Spectacled Caiman
switched to contact lenses

[just mercedes]

switched lenses
not near sighted anymore
only short sighted

When the lighthouse lenses
needed cleaning, they switched
to flames and line-of-sight

[rayheinrich]

    When the lighthouse lenses
    needed cleaning, they switched
    to flames and line-of-sight


    lenses, flames, the siege of Syracuse -
    poor Archimedes
    betrayed by Artemis

[Achebe]

lenses, flames, the siege of Syracuse -
poor Archimedes
betrayed by Artemis

Him the huntress slew, a pity
but poorer they of that Assuwan city
levelled by Mighty Aphrodite.

[rayheinrich]

lenses, flames, the siege of Syracuse -
poor Archimedes
betrayed by Artemis

Him the huntress slew, a pity
but poorer they of that Assuwan city
levelled by Mighty Aphrodite.

To be picky: Since the Romans were doing the conquering, it wouldn't be Aphrodite but Venus.
And more picky: What's Aphrodite or Venus doing leveling a city (unless, somehow, it was leveled by
love... or some passion the Romans had for war??). If leveling was to be done by a Roman goddess,
it would be Artemis' Roman parallel: Diana. And hell, as long as we're going that far, I'd give credit to
the Roman god Mars. But that aside, I grant you 100 points for "Assuwan city". Esoteric you are dude!