When The Walls Come Tumblin' Down

Routine is a ground to stand on, a wall to retreat to; we cannot draw on our boots without bracing ourselves against it. - Thoreau

the walls came tumblin' down

i needed a bulldozer

all i had was a tarnished spoon

maybe in the next life,

i'll sell tickets to a sand dune

either that

or rebuild with green cheese on the moon

Author's Note

"Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking of the backside of the picture on the wall, or as if the author expected that the dead would be his readers, and wished to detail to them their own experience." - Thoreau