Cruelty Without Beauty

Education is what educates people,
for both good and for ill.

Statues may presume to teach
but they are the dumb insolence,
of the hyper-wealthy victors
making figureheads for history
out of their antecedents
to make lies of history
where who gained the most
did so by telling the biggest lies.

In this narrative 99.99 % of people were ignored
and their lives cruelly shortened
for the beauty of those who knew the cruelty
with which their wealth was achieved.

When the statues to slave owners are so quiet,
the silence helps hides their shame better.
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