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Put a Beggar on the Throne

April 11, 2015
By RemusPenn SILVER, Tuttle, Oklahoma
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RemusPenn SILVER, Tuttle, Oklahoma
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&quot;Everyone is eventually sorted into one of two groups: those with a dream worth dying for, and those with a death worth dreaming of.&quot;<br /> <br /> -Me

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Put a beggar on the throne

Let his name be carved in stone

As the people's fool, the magistrate

So wrongly sees fit to fit our fate

To us, he wears a crown of wood

To us, he does (naught) but good

Put a beggar on the throne

Better him than that old crone

A flowing river of a beard

Yet no fish would bed down here

Sitting in his kingly hall

Can't disguise the irony of it all

So put a beggar on the throne

We the people stand alone

© Shannon W., Pensacola, FL

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