Life in the Pax Romana of the modern era

does not typically involve flowers 

surprisingly

short on time busy building and inventing

gizmos (a word coined in 1942) 

and other things 

like families and outfits, nice affairs 

arranged for a still life with a quiet mind 

of consuming, laughing and eating comely chocolate candies, 

the likes of which the world shall never again 

indulge in - the era when we worked together 

and measured progress by the rate of rotation in revolutions 

of culture and conquest of the past 

thoughts considered to be but floccinaucinihilipilification 

and the future to be filled with loud clashes 

of words that mean what we say