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The Court of the Crimson King.

"I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold"

--@verybadllama.bsky.social

Tanka.

"mad king's vengeance"

through the Tesla's red glare
glean hyena noontide
geese squawking a klaxon
the spooled Occam duller
ascian groundhog groceries
grins the mad king's vengeance

in the chop ward snirtles
jester Alabaster
two-bit Batman villains
a clenched fist of henchmen
gyrate hourly newsreels
grins the mad king's vengeance

"Foreign affairs journalist David Rothkopf was more graphic: 'These aren’t tariffs,' he wrote. 'They are a horse’s head in the bed of (almost) every world government and business leader'."