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If not the facts do count
not even the people
but money and power

under the banner of freedom
equality or faith
weigh heavily in the pockets

of the senators
and treason is the slogan
for each of them

who would want to protest time after time
when is repeated
that Carthage must be destroyed

     then wise words fail
     even from the mouth of the most gifted speaker -
     and who then can be the leader

     of the democratic revolution?

Poem 918
Amsterdam, 2016-12-26

Marcus Cato "the Elder" (234-149): 'Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam' ('Moreover, I advise that Carthage must be destroyed')
Collection: From Sacred Scriptures [3] 
Keyword: Power: manipulation 
Keyword: Politics^ 
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