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Just reeks of a squalid victory

It drifts downwind

Does this squalid camaraderie

Play to the gallery

With woolly humanity

As valued above - well above the valueless

Pumped up, trumped up, shrugged off

No impediment, no impediment

No impediment to triumph

Rings burned, rings burned into the retina, transfixed

Back-handed unity

Bhopal gags on the reverie

As valued above - well above the valueless

So easily slipped are shackles

Of culpability, of culpability

No impediment to triumph

No impediment to triumph

No impediment to triumph

No impediment to triumph

Brandish the torch that shines

No light on the wretched and malformed

At pains to sustain

But the only thing sustained is

Free rein for a mass poisoner

A triumph? No