%) Blowback!
The violence that the empire inflicts on the far reaches of the realm keeps returning home in ever fiercer vengeance, here a.k.a. ‘blowback’:
Empire forcing itself afar
implacably & scheming
Generals lust for that next star
Dark killing machines gleaming
Poor cultures obliterated
through mechanized pure evil
millions are ‘depopulated’
Now brings home the upheaval:
Empire has begun coming apart in whimper
Long overdue that its breezy smile turns simper!
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-‘blow back’ = overlooked consequences suffered by an aggressor, typically manifesting themselves as ‘random’ acts of violence without a discernible cause because much of the public being oblivious to how initially provoked
-‘depopulated’ = here: a euphemism for killed, maimed, displaced etc
edited 10/30/23 1540