What does it say

about what he must think

the future is going to be

when…

the ballroom he wants

is not for good things to flaunt

it’s to protect him

from enemies, so many enemies

not of us, but of him

and it’s clear he considers us

closer to them

when the outer reaches

of who he sees as mattering lives

is ballroom-size

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