Must the Show Go On?
When,
finally, a monarch’s life is spent,
Then a
precisely scripted spectacle
Is enacted,
highly political,
It becomes a
theatrical event.
Cue
republicans who are expected
To heckle
from the fringes, even though
There would
be a very similar show
For a head
of state who’d been elected.
The crown
becoming dislodged by fate
Poses the
point, what need for any head
Of state is
there, either living or dead?
Indeed, why
have a nation or a state?
Only when capitalism’s interred
Can a
leaderless future be inferred.
D. A.
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