Malevolence
By what
malevolent mechanism
Does someone
become so self-promoting
As to seduce
voters into voting
In favour of
division and schism?
For all such
Herodians, innocence
Of those
being killed and buried in their homes
Is easily
dismissed. Victory forms
Its own
rationale, though it makes nonsense
Of any
claims to civilisation,
Which surely
should be a society
Of the
commonweal, where people are free
From
obligation to any nation
And its
capital. Power’s the sly drug
That so intoxicates
the demagogue.
D. A.
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