The Last Devil Must Die

I have known so many devils,

Hitler, Stalin, Kissinger, Pinochet

and now Netanyahu.

And then there are those

with histories or geographies

beyond me.

It seems there is no end to them

that one begets the other

in a prodigious male line

straight from Satan up to Earth,

there to make a new Hell,

there to be fed, 

groomed and protected

by politicians

in their own interest,

by corporations

in their own interest

and by countless others

in their own interests

in the country they call home.

They’re like a queen honey bee,

her own ordinary egg 

fed by Workers,

groomed by Carers,

protected by Soldiers.

It’s nurture not nature

that makes her queen

and keeps her queen

while she is useful.

Then they kill her

and breed another

and so it goes 

on and on and on.

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