Paul thought the monarch migration
was all the world’s royals
meeting in a small French town
on the Mediterranean Sea.
He imagined their numbers were thinned
by the long flight
as predators along the way
picked off stragglers.
They are now refugees
from peasant revolts
whose strength in numbers
outweigh the monarch’s strength in coin.
Paul thought about
habitual income inequality
and how poorer readers
flocked to Karl Heinrich Marx.
He imagined wide spread distribution
of the The Communist Manifesto
among the cotton slaves
held in the southern United States
during the Gold Rush year
and how the bloody uprising
would pre-date John Brown
and spread through northern sweatshops.
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