Laird Merde

or The Living Death beneath Macbeth "The top 1 percent of households globally own 43 percent of all personal wealth, while the bottom 50 percent own only 1 percent." -- The 2020 Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report "All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!" -- the Third Witch to the top 1 percent * * * A Lord of Scotland am I full declared -- Or rather "Laird" (the title clans prefer) -- While my old lady dubbed is "Lairdy" Merde, Although she hard insists I hail her "Sir"; How I in kilt the bonny lad do look, When whirling in the heather on the heath, Or cuddling up with "Mackie" in a nook, Delighting in the draft of fiendish teeth; Straight stretches my estate twelve inches long; Twelve inches yet Milairdy's stretches wide; Thus, squared our stronghold stands one foothold strong, Wherein the horse Sir Lairdy thrills to ride -- Who pumping, pipes, "Och, aye! Och, aye! The nooooooo!" As rearing, drones the stallion, "Och! Me tooooooo!" * * * a dedication of Respect for the vast Pain of each future generation of children on the stage of the globe full enslaved to the inheritors of the earth -- and their fiend-like queens a revolving helios sonnet shakespearean satire menippean on billions of serfs' servile idolatry of the 1 percent rich butchers may, 2023 -- double, double toil and trouble bursts the thirty-trillion bubble