vive l'empereur!

revolution long time coming.
get your rulers out.
deposed of a throne;
only a bench covered with velvet.
men's plump bottoms cannot bear
to rest their bums elsewhere.
declarations of war ring out.
tectonic ideas shifting continental Europe.
fragmented feudal laws.
privileged plagued by pillaging peasants.
the blue blooded buckle under civil codes.
children of the revolution
have taken up their bayonets
stabbing ideas into superconsciouses.
splicing democracy and empire.
a Corsican conquers
with colonel's calloused feet.
the dreaded guard.
the last of the angsty rebellious
hidden among us in the millennium.
powerless, grande arme-less.
submissive to a welfare check,
terrorist threats, propaganda.
he takes it back;
long live the emperor!