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They were originally written to perform
before the king before the king

a bygone era’s Capitol riots.
Forever storming, but never restoring

any sort of ordered significance.
Soldiers falling soldiers falling soldiers

falling: Rube Goldberg variations
of mouse-trapping rabbit holes.

Like right-wing Youtubers role-playing
a raid on The Cabinet of

Dr. Caligari, Joel Coen
be trolling y’all

with a stylized arthouse noir
masquerading as political allegory.

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As political allegory goes,
a lot of what happens in Macbeth

happens in the mind of Michael Fassbender
or other legendary “leading men”

like Brad Pitt and George Clooney.
Those classic hammy solilo-bros from

Great Britain, or better yet, Great Scotland!
A fantasia on a fantasia on

Sean Connery as Ozymandian
Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront

coulda been a contender; Sean Connery
as Andy Sirkus’ Gollum, Gollum,

Gollum; Sean Connery as LeBron James
in Space Jam 2: A New Legacy.

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