Our despot must expire
it could happen any number of ways
in the way of Caesar, and the 20 Senators
in the way of Verwoerd, in the halls of government
in the way of Gaddafi, in a hole in the ground
in the way of Adolf, in an underground bunker
in the way of Heydrich, in a roadside car
in the way of Oswald, in front of cameras
in the way of the Czar, against a wall
in the way of Shinzo Abe, on a podium
in the way of Mussolini, left to hang like a polyp
in the way of Louis the King, absent his head
in the way of Juvénal Habyarimana, pricked from the sky
in the way of any of these ways, or one of the many other ways that are possible
Our despot must expire
rotten fruit must fall
but the harvest is best when the fruit is ripe
