Oscar Wilde’s New Year’s Eve in Beirut
“New Year’s resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”
“To Masoud” wrote Oscar Wilde on New Year’s Eve in Beirut:
Masoud! I think thy spirit hath passed away
From these empty banks, and separated men;
This crumbling fiery-colored country of ours
Seems fallen into ashes dull and grey,
And the age changed unto a mimic play
Wherein we waste our else too-crowded hours:
For all our pomp and pageantry and powers,
We are but fit to delve the common clay
Our New Year’s resolutions are simply checks,
That men draw on a bank where they have no account
Seeing this little street on which we stand,
This Lebanon, this shit hole of a country,
By ignorant demagogues is held in fee,
Isn’t it a tragedy?
That when politicians get together they talk about art,
But when artists get together, they talk about money!
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