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Australian poet, Colosseum in Rome, Confederate statue removal, Erasing the past, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, Memorial destruction, poem, poetry, Revisionist history
Of past memories we will free ‘em!
Memorials smash! – none will see ‘em!
Each statue and bust
We’ll destroy, then we must
Demolish that damned Colosseum!
dnobrienpoetry 
Oh — great point! I am sooooooo fed up with all this crap about trying to destroy real history. I think I feel a book coming on about a powerful political group bent on just that — destroying real history and manufacturing a fake one. Of course that’s what’s been going on in my country for many years — but we need a few novels and movies hitting the market about it. Otherwise the people who could put a stop to it keep ignoring it.
But, on second thought, why should I put all that time and energy into writing the truth about it when the people who read it would still just sit back and pretend that it really is fiction. What a sickeningly apathetic society we live in.