ix. 
The devil has turned the wor 
Imps are playing on their musi 
The dance of death, while 
Angels, afraid to walk upon the earth, 
Are hiding behind mountains of steel, 
Weeping, listening, looking, not knowing the end. 
Senators, mayors, representatives of states, 
Being ambitious to rule, are forming plots, 
Becoming one another's enemy: 
And these men will not be shown their mistakes, 
For all of them say that they are right. 
x. 
Men and women are committing suicide 
Because of love, melancholy, and jealousy. 
Bandits are entering banks, stores, and homes; 
Blackmailing is causing numerous divorces. 
Actors, actresses, artists, poets, and dancers, 
Dressed in magnificent garments, 
Leading the fastest life that they can, 
They are causing Chicago, New York, Paris, 
London, and all other big cities of the world, 
To erect a Goddess of Pleasure, a God of Death, 
Amid all such circumstances 
Virtue is becoming Lucifer’s brother. 
ld into hell. 
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xi. 
A snake is now in every man’s pocket 
Whereupon in every woman's bag is a cancer; 
Both of them mean death very soon, 
Because it has, seemingly, become @ law 
To die, to have a calamity for all just now. 
Hence, biography and history are being made 
At the expense of society’s conditions. 
Even boys and girls at school 
Are fighting more than ever; 
Contrariwise, they do not play as they used to. 
They control themselves— 
Even they do not care about hell! 
xii. 
Revolutionary Mexico, Obregon, 
American ammunition, Tampico, 
And El Paso, Texas, are entering 
The world calamity of warfare. 
One, America or Mexico, will soon 
Become a deadly enemy, Killing, 
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