12 February 2026

To the Élite (a luc bat)

 A voice cried 'Sleep no more!'
So little time, before the dawn

of helplessness is drawn
across our withered lawn of hope.

Wide-eyed but blind, we grope
the darkness for an opening glint

of grace, the merest hint
of honour in the flint-locked heart 

of privilege. We start
to blend excuses, partly through

our latent goodness. Who
can countenance the true extent,

the reeking sacrament
of evil, reinvented by

the shitterati? Why
dissemble? Liars all,

they'll engineer the fall
of empires to forestall their own

exposure. They have grown
to hate us all. Their only aim –

perpetuate the same 
impunity, reclaim the power

that crumbles by the hour
as truth reveals their towering guilt.

Till, skewered to the hilt,
they writhe, they squirm, they wilt and pray

for light to skulk away
so they can holiday again.


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