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Carthage: A Holocaust?

Forty years after the conclusion of the Second Punic War and the Roman assimilation of the Carthaginian Empire, Rome decided to raze the city. The razing took a full year. First they murdered every inhabitant that hadn't fled in time. Second they set the city ablaze for three full months. Third they pulled down the charred, cracked stones.

Was it genocide? No more so than the various bombings undertaken by Allied powers in WWII.

Genocide implies going after people of a certain ethnic background for a assumed direct benefit. This was the elimination of a power center, not a people. It is therefore not a genocide, just a razing.

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what we go through

So, in a writing workshop I participated in not a long time ago (just kidding it was like, five years ago...) they had us write a poem, or fictional story with three minutes on the clock. I've heard of this practice before, I enjoyed it when I did it. Sometimes the best shit comes from you writing everything on your mind as quickly as possible. Almost word vomit, right? Well, I decided that with this writers block lately, I would go ahead and do that little excersize and get my brain moving. Frankly, I'm not really sure what I wrote about...and the vocabulary isn't the finest. I never intentionally rhyme but for some reason it felt really good. I feel like a gangsta. ENJOY.

"Bruise me, hurt me so good

I know you feel better when it's all on me

Relief for you, but everlasting damage on my memory

You won't stop, can't stop

You'll keep it all up

Not just with me, but with every other one

Should I warn them now?

No, I'll hold my tounge

Marking my mind with all of the deceit,

Now, why'd you have to lie?

It's all clear now, I can't ever be free

Because it's true you left your mark on me