two,
but nothing more of the machine’s purpose
than can be guessed at from its peculiar shape
and solitary position
out here where nobody lives or works or ever comes
with only the wolves for company,
howling in the wind that whistles through its delicate wires
sending us to sleep.
THE KINGâS EVIL
There are no kings inside the Gates of Eden
B OB D YLAN
Â
A pox on all kings!
A N O LD W OMAN, W ATCHING C HARLES IIâ S
E NTRY I NTO L ONDON, 1660
And it isnât a question of money â
how much the monarchy costs â
but they set up a right by assumption,
by assumption binding posterity
        And Thomas Paine began
        the Rights of Man
        in a room above
        The Angel Inn, Islington,
        attacking the very basis
        of slavery
        arguing that we are all born free
        free and equal in rights
        and have a natural right
        to free speech, freedom of conscience,
        life and liberty
Yet we are subject to one family:
the monarch
and close relatives of the monarch
and the monarch is first and foremost political
        They sought to suppress
        the Rights of Man
        and indicted Paine
        for seditious libel
        and Paine fled to France
        and was tried in absentia
        and the jury was offered
        two guineas and dinner to find him guilty
        and the bookseller Thomas Spence
        imprisoned for selling the Rights of Man
America threw off the yoke
of monarchy. France threw off the yoke
of monarchy. But we are ruled over
        in perpetuity
        by one family
and this is regarded as normal
        in a democracy
bloodlines and blood fascism
        in a democracy
destiny written in our veins
âwe high-born onesâ, âwe well-bred
with pure blood and pure breedingâ
â âour superior geneticsâ 1 â
        born to rule
        to master
No rational basis but blood
(and some idiot always says:
      âThey know how to rule â
        itâs in their bloodâ)
But Paine was clear on this:
        hereditary rule
        precludes the consent
        of succeeding generations
        and the preclusion of consent is
                   DESPOTISM
And the monarch will make retribution
        the Tower of London
        once a place of execution
        and on Tower Bridge strange to see
        the hair of the head disappear
        the gristle of the nose consumed away
        the eye sockets â¦
                                    All deference is fear
and not meeting the monarchâs eyes
            is fear and servile fearfulness:
âTo monarchize,
            be fearâd and kill with
but nothing more of the machine’s purpose
than can be guessed at from its peculiar shape
and solitary position
out here where nobody lives or works or ever comes
with only the wolves for company,
howling in the wind that whistles through its delicate wires
sending us to sleep.
THE KINGâS EVIL
There are no kings inside the Gates of Eden
B OB D YLAN
Â
A pox on all kings!
A N O LD W OMAN, W ATCHING C HARLES IIâ S
E NTRY I NTO L ONDON, 1660
And it isnât a question of money â
how much the monarchy costs â
but they set up a right by assumption,
by assumption binding posterity
        And Thomas Paine began
        the Rights of Man
        in a room above
        The Angel Inn, Islington,
        attacking the very basis
        of slavery
        arguing that we are all born free
        free and equal in rights
        and have a natural right
        to free speech, freedom of conscience,
        life and liberty
Yet we are subject to one family:
the monarch
and close relatives of the monarch
and the monarch is first and foremost political
        They sought to suppress
        the Rights of Man
        and indicted Paine
        for seditious libel
        and Paine fled to France
        and was tried in absentia
        and the jury was offered
        two guineas and dinner to find him guilty
        and the bookseller Thomas Spence
        imprisoned for selling the Rights of Man
America threw off the yoke
of monarchy. France threw off the yoke
of monarchy. But we are ruled over
        in perpetuity
        by one family
and this is regarded as normal
        in a democracy
bloodlines and blood fascism
        in a democracy
destiny written in our veins
âwe high-born onesâ, âwe well-bred
with pure blood and pure breedingâ
â âour superior geneticsâ 1 â
        born to rule
        to master
No rational basis but blood
(and some idiot always says:
      âThey know how to rule â
        itâs in their bloodâ)
But Paine was clear on this:
        hereditary rule
        precludes the consent
        of succeeding generations
        and the preclusion of consent is
                   DESPOTISM
And the monarch will make retribution
        the Tower of London
        once a place of execution
        and on Tower Bridge strange to see
        the hair of the head disappear
        the gristle of the nose consumed away
        the eye sockets â¦
                                    All deference is fear
and not meeting the monarchâs eyes
            is fear and servile fearfulness:
âTo monarchize,
            be fearâd and kill with
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