CASTLEREAGH
August 6, 2018 11:06 pm Leave your thoughts
I met Murder on the way
He had a mask like Castlereagh (The Mask of Anarchy; Shelley)
we
forget that satirists
even
poets
had
their own devils
that
pricked
the
romantic part of them
to
anger
that
the worst of times were upon them
nothing
matched
their shameful days
with
wry tears
they
dashed
ink
across parchment and paper
in
fact
Castlereagh
was
more sinned against than sinning
a
sensitive soul
who
at least had the decency to cut his own throat
unlike
Shelley
who
murdered through neglect
selfishness
and
intellectual beauty
history
is written by those with a pleasing style
this
alone
is
a reason for mistrusting those who fancy themselves as philosophers
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