LEVIATHAN
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‘I saw in my dream the ocean boil in bloody froth.
Raising it’s head, see!;
a monstrous fish, gore stained!
-a mouth with three rows of daggers sharp.
Upon the first and outer set,
broken and worn from it’s kills,
the name-
‘WESTERN CIVILIZATION’ -was scrawled.
2
The second row, less blunted they were:
upon these was carven-
‘RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT/ RULES BASED ORDER/DEMOCRACY PROMOTION’.
3
The third, pristine, white and waiting-
deadly sharp!
they gleamed, spelling-
‘NATION, IDENTITY, SOVEREIGNTY, FREEDOM’.
4
Three rows, three mantras, one purpose.
One and one alone.
5
Ever hungry, insatiable for the flesh of man.
The beast plunged again and hurried towards the shoreline,
where- behold!
the children of the world play,
heedlessly in the surf’