Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
No Longer Waiting (After C.P. Cavafy)
by p.a. morbid
The Barbarians have
breached the walls of the Citadel
and are running amok,
destroying the sacred texts
of our ancestors.
Where are the Prefects?
Where are those with the power
to call allies to our side
and stop these Philistines
from wrecking the temples?
This time the Barbarians
had no need to scale the walls,
nor rain war upon our battlements,
because the Leaders and the Prefects
opened the gates for them.
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