The age demanded

THE AGE DEMANDED 　　Earnest Hemingway 　　The age demanded that we sing 　　And cut away our tongue. 　　The age demanded that we flow 　　And hammered in the bung. 　　The age demanded that we dance 　　And jammed us into iron pants. 　　And in the end the age was handed 　　The sort of shit that it demanded.