The Statesman on Nicolae Ceausescu.
Another brute, another revolution.
Always we favour the grenade solution.
A tour of the Sun Temple won’t stop a coup
In some piddling Calypso Republic.
All our monuments are monstrosities.
The blood of serfs sustains our royal trees.
So what if each plinth is in precise cubic
Feet? I have learnt to measure human art
Through the eyes of slaves in a carrion cart.