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Music:
Goldberg Variations: Variation 15.
By Johann Sebastian Bach.
Performed by Kimiko Ishizaka at the
Free Music Archive
under a Creative
Commons Public Domain Dedication license.
In every heart there
is, of course, corruption.
No one is immune from lust and greed.
Democracy accommodates this need,
Embracing what might else lead to destruction.
People cannot people an ideal.
Equality's a myth, has always been
No more than something to put favors in,
Dependent on the lie that it is real.
Each decision is a battlefield,
Not of ideas but interests, yours and mine,
Calculated shrewdly to define
Exactly what advantage each might yield.
Do not be discouraged: Evil is
As much a part of us as love or bliss.
Yet what is not a wound cannot be
healed.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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