Muttering behind their fisted hands,
and murmuring voiced their complaints,
and muted applause for a strangled clause,
that moderates a response while killing goes on.
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Burbling streams that wear folk down,
and buttering up the cream of influence,
and bartered appeals that threaten children,
through bargaining that weights the loaded die.
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Fractured opposition falls infighting,
failing to see the tyrants’ colluding coup,
and frightened the oppressed are grateful for
fragments that fall from the tyrants tasty tables.
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Imprisoned, passionate prophets cry for lost chances,
indifference feeding fascist lies and cheating, with
promises of rich rewards and contracts to
shore up their shredding of democracy.
