In insult verse, the accuracy of the charge matters less than its confident presentation. To be assertive is to be right; to be memorable is to win.
If we are at war let the orchards show it, let the pear and fig fall prior to their time, let the radios die and the hounds freeze over their meat.
Like scribes, they lean closer, watching the old men he blessed for long life stand and listen.
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