Democracy

All the chicken heads

Are hung against the wall

And in invisible velvet rooms

Choice chokes on power

And the stupid dance

Of commanded wraiths

Processes its time

Declares victors’ empty victory

Only the machine is glorious

Structure is Caesar

While the plebeians play dice

Under a Lotto Number

Soaked in blood

Dan Corjescu teaches at the University of Tübingen’s “Studium Professionale” Program