Not quite content with silent, calm contempt,
You choose to ignore contradictions and
You dare not even make a slight attempt
To get to know both sides or understand.
The more disdain and scorn that you display
The more I know I’m living the right way.
“A crime has been committed here today,”
The Chief Inquisitor declared aloud,
Then paused as if to think, turned back to say:
“And clearly it was that dumb drunk! McCloud,
I think, is that immoral villain’s name!
He and his kind are nothing but a blight!”
His name’s, in fact, St. Cloud, and what a shame,
For he’d been dead there on the ground all night.
McCloud is an allusion, but not really an allusion, to some move from the 70's. But he said not really....
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Theme: the fault of the Chief?
i think we are having similar notions Mr. Sanction.
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