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Wednesday, June 01, 2022

Socialist Sonnet No. 68

 

Jilting the Jubilee

 

Three score and ten, not a life, but a reign,

A feudal crown perched on capital’s head.

Wealth looks after wealth, while the folk are fed

A narcotic diet to help sustain

Acceptance. The spectacle being staged

Has been Tudor rose tinted, red and white

And blue blood of course. Manufactured delight,

With all the pomp and flummery engaged,

Is designed for subjects to celebrate

Their subjection, not even think about

Their own commonwealth, or begin to doubt

The divined rights of capital’s state.

Let the crown fall and Union Jack be furled,

Time to break out bunting on a new world.

 

D. A.

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