Poem, Dead Telling Tales, Capitalism, Old Bones

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In Treasury Triumph
November 18, 2023

the downside to power
is not that it corrupts
but that it empowers

grinding empirical bones
between fingers stirred
to fractional phylactery

arbitrating godhead belief
our dead presidents act
touched, untouchable

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