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Nostradamus Revisited
by Michael Shaeffer Wilson → (All Poetry by Michael Shaeffer Wilson)
  
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I saw a downtown decimated,
Abandoned apartments, shattered windows;
Homeless broken souls wandering vacated,
Criminal thugs preying with darkened clothes.

Glittering glaring Casino Riverboat,
Squatting in center of the city;
Stealing money and hope, gloating,
Mocking machines taking no pity.

Businesses moved on to greener pastures,
Leaving crime-riddled city behind,
Decaying and disintegrating infrastructures,
Legacy of Riverboat Casino Divine.

Repeated across the entire land,
Entire nation crumbled in the sand.


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 Reviews of "Nostradamus Revisited"
Reviewed by Kate Clifford (Reader)
Reviewed on October 8, 2003
Good write on the gambling fever.

Reviewed by Tinka Boukes
Reviewed on October 8, 2003
yikes... hope not!!

Well written!!

Love Tinka

Reviewed by Leland Waldrip
Reviewed on October 8, 2003
Nice observations. Casinos are just a phase we're going through.
Best regards,
Leland

Reviewed by jude forese
Reviewed on October 7, 2003
hope not... very well written...

Reviewed on October 7, 2003
Nice bit of sonneteer, also the theme, i especially liked 8 & 14. Robin


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