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Out of what lair did the earthly tyrants escape?

Nero burned Rome twice, then composed a discordant tune

he went on playing till the city sang with him.

Holako who inherited that melody

set fire

to the world's library, the river ran

with ink, and from the ashes was born

the language of the locusts which rose

to thank the madman.

After the salutations to madness, Hitler came

(..) but unable to be appeased,

had to include the sea

in his vital destruction,

and war at sea, turmoil on land,

combined in their angry conflagration.

I too have seen a tyrant-

whose power diminished the other three.

he has committed every atrocity,

and yet: in his day,

there were five poets,

who took to silence.