Emperors and Kings
We remember His Exultedness Ozymandias standing in the desert, surveying His Empire
we wrote essays about him at school
Emperors and Thieves
We remember the sight of another Exulted One, in bronze, being towed earthwards
(and later the trap-door plunge after much discussion)
Emperors and Tyrants
We’ve studied the works and plans of the Genius of Economics: His Marxness
and watched with sadness or satisfaction as the communist experiments failed under
the weight of human nature
Emperors and Stars
In marble or bronze, paint or celluloid we like to keep our Emperors on pedestals,
high up on a wall:
Above, untouchable, beyond the grip of gravity or sin
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| image: Lee Friedlander |
Thanks to Tess at The Mag for the prompt. More mags are here
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