<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div id="poem-top" class="tab-content active" style="display: block; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><h1 style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101" size="3" style="font-weight: normal;">The Age Demanded</font></h1></div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101"><span style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></span></font><div id="poem" class="tab-content active" style="display: block; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><div class="poem" style="font-variant: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-top: 25px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">The age demanded that we sing</font></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">And cut away our tongue.</font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101"><br></font><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">The age demanded that we flow</font></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">And hammered in the bung.</font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101"><br></font><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">The age demanded that we dance</font></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">And jammed us into iron pants.</font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101"><br></font><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">And in the end the age was handed</font></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">The sort of shit that it demanded.</font></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101"><br></font></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>- Ernest Hemingway</font></div></div></div></body></html>