(After Shelley’s “England in 1819”)

An old, bad, vain, despised, and lying prez;
Cronies, sycophants, corrupt, and now in charge;
A tech czar, with a jobs chain-saw, at large;
A loony with a brain worm who now says:
All the things that saved us will be banned–
Floride in our water, every good vaccine;
Judges bought and sold, and courts unkeen
To see that justice triumphs in the land;
In charge of schools, a monstrous wrestler’s wife,
Who’s called AI A1–a sauce for steak–
And been herself “instructed” how to break
The DOE, and higher ed, a vengeful strife—
Are graves from which some glorious phantom may
Burst to illumine our tempestuous day.

– in Memoriam Marshall Sahlins

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