Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Socialist Sonnet No. 232

Barmpotocracies

 

Splendid possibilities there could be

For social progress of humanity,

If only folk didn’t tacitly agree

To preserving their barmpotocracy.

A state with a petite-Fuhrer posing

In a suit, fatigues or clerical garb,

Whose every perfidious word’s a barb,

Hooking those who have the formal choosing,

Making legitimate what’re really crimes,

Seemingly immunised against remorse,

Sole navigator of the nation’s course

Through dark and poisonous political climes.

It can be otherwise, everyone’s got

A choice; ourselves or follow the barmpot.

 

D. A.

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