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Dauntless

Quote: 'Put on the dauntless spirit of resolution' (King John, act 5, scene 1, lines 48–53) - William Shakespeare

Mutterings of awful shame 
(a child’s bones)
vie for supremacy.
Yet here you are, cowering incessantly.
You hide in a game of thrones.

Fie!
Put on the dauntless spirit of resolution, Sir!
Show courage in a worthy hopeless cause,
my Blade Runner, my  bread-and-butter.

Show your true flag.
Ah yes, truth will not cover in glory;
that is the power of propaganda.
Begone, John Lackland;
they don’t like your story.

Magna Carta,
Charter of the law.

Gotcha.

Copyright © Jeanette Swan

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