RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: ON TYRANNY
Inevitability
We have fallen under
A spell of comfortable passivity
The past is forgotten
The future is inevitable
The arc of history bends toward justice
Why fight for a cause however worthy
When the die is cast (alea iacta est)
And the future is ordained
Why bother with it all
Sit back and witness as our
Heroes on tall white horses
Save the day
Ask the victims of Mussolini
About the arc of history
Ask the Spanish about Franco
Ask the Jews about the Reich
The Chinese about the purge
The Russians about Stalin
The Ukrainians about Putin
Ask your elders about McCarthy
And the letters KKK
The future is not written
Nothing is inevitable
Nothing belongs to fate
Tyranny is enabled by passivity
Passivity is enabled by faith
In the inevitable
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