The Last Day of Elections

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Dictators, kings, tyrants and empires come and go. But the common man is the one who stays.

Oh, say, where you there by the Nile that Arab Spring,
When they threw out a military dictatorship?
Or, in Prague by Dubcek’s side at the Velvet Revolution of 89?
Did you see the little guy then with his funny white cap?
The aam aadmi was there.
Were you there in the coffee club with the Jacobins
When they decided to throw out the Sun King’s throne?
He was there as well.
Where were you when the English levellers
Challenged the God-given right of Charles the First?



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