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One Regrets

8/18/2017

 

I did not vote for tyranny
    But many people did;
I face the prospect drearily
    But it was never hid.

If somehow democratic norms
    Or some semblance thereof
Survive the times—great bane deforms
    Below, between, above— 

It will occur in spite of those
    Who voted to revoke
(In essence everybody knows
    Elections are no joke),

For, even many years ago
    I knew, as I know now,
The state of things must come to woe
    If people did allow.

So many junctures on the path
    The course might have been halted,
Today merely an aftermath
    And many to be faulted.

I blame you, silly citizens,
    Less fiercely than I might:
Your foolishness was ever men’s
    (Which does not make it right).

Adieu to such a happy dream!
    Now slanders fill the land.
The fault lies not with this regime
    That they are out of hand.

When first you tolerated lies
    You set the issue up,
Mendacity without disguise
    To fill your altar cup.


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