(wrote Flaubert)
"is to raise the proletariat
to the same level of stupidity as the bourgeoisie"
– who, wallowing in hypocrisy,
aped the aristocracy
– who aped the kings and popes
and khans and emperors
who dreamed of Omnipotence.
And now even I live a life undreamed of
by Roman autocrats.
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