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The Fate of the State
The fate of the state
especially the great
Is under fire.
At a crossroads of history
where a long-accustomed story
Is soon likely not to be any longer.
Whole empires stumbled
Austrians, Hungarians, Germans, Ottomans humbled
so it was in the wake of World War I.
While new states, many of them only statelets, emerged from the wreckage
but now also the small are facing a carnage
not knowing how to proceed.
The storm clouds are gathering
the autocrats swaggering
people are looking for cover.
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