2011 - Annus Mirabilis

Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after,

And the poetry he invented was easy to understand;

He knew human folly like the back of his hand,

And was greatly interested in armies and fleets;

When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,

And when he cried the little chidren died in the streets.

- Epitaph on a Tyrant, W.H. Auden, 1939