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You can all come back now.
All of you.
Romanovs, sort it out.
Charles, grow some spine.
Find a Paleologos in some diner
Muttering over his corned beef hash.
Grab a Hohenzollern.
Bourbons or Bonapartes would do.
Vittorio Emmanuel must have an heir around someplace.
All the little ones, too.
The dukes and earls and doo wop doo wop —
Bring them all back.
Clear out our windsor-knotted bandits
Our elected thieves and traitors
All these creeps and thugs The People chose —
Come back now, y’all
Maybe you really did have a divine right.
We certainly don’t.
The People have made a mess of everything,
Far worse than it was in your genteel days.
Or maybe I just lack historical sense.
Or you all lacked modern means of oppression.
I don’t know,
But I’m willing to take my chances.
You couldn’t do worse than this bunch —
Could you?
THERE CAME FROM THE STATE OF TENNESSEE,A MAN WHO WARNED OF A FLOODING SEA, AND WHILE POCKETS THE CASH, FROM A GLOBAL BASH, AND SIPS HIS CUP OF HERBAL TEA. I hope you like my little Limerick
You left out AND WHO SIPS HIS JUICE FROM HIS ATTENDING MASSEUSE
I love toxic masculinity in poetry.
This is an interesting perspective. The past 4 years certainly are enough to make one yearn for the days of monarchy. My son and I have had many discussions about the pros and cons. You hit the nail on the head with “lacked modern means of oppression”; our founding fathers knew well that oppression is the tendency of all government of any time in any time period.
Cowboy and Conservative Poetry yes there are Conservative Poets
We need Charles Martel now.
And King Sobieski
David Starkey, an English historian, talks about how the sidelining of the monarchy has given rise to “Windsor knotted” experts, “quangos” and committees who champion “universal rights” which, in fact, lead to the oppression of the majority by favoring the minority. We can see the results as Parliament is now kicking around the idea of what amounts to “blasphemy laws”. Most kings I’ve heard of, in history, rarely gave up territory without a fight or emptied their treasury because of stupidity. But that was then and, as they say, we’ve come a long way. Have we, now?