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Eliminate—or else divine:
Lay waste for the royal lion—
A name, a war, the weight of time.
Exhale before the weak can speak.
Let silence gild your bloodless cheek.
Kings and queens do not descend—
They glance.
Then pass.
Peasants.
Lay waste for the royal lion—
A name, a war, the weight of time.
Exhale before the weak can speak.
Let silence gild your bloodless cheek.
Kings and queens do not descend—
They glance.
Then pass.
Peasants.
"Royal Etiquette" is a poetic manual for cruelty in the name of tradition—an unholy scripture that shows how civility, hierarchy, and violence entwine beneath a royal banner.
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