Updated: July 18, 2008

What is that sound high in the air

Murmur of maternal lamentation

Who are those hooded hordes swarming

Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth

Ringed by the flat horizon only

What is the city over the mountains

Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air

Falling towers

New York Jerusalem Pyongyang 

Bagdad Moscow Tehran  London

Unreal

............T.S Eliot "The Wasteland" updated for the 21st Century