Rondo Al La Turk

Epigrammata 83

Freedom is not free / from rebellion’s iron law / follow the money.

So the World must turn by someone's hand
Yes, even one like Erdogan --
May on that lever once place his palm
And so disrupt its seeming calm
And tell tall tales that the West must love
The just so stories fit like a glove!
For 'freedom' substitute 'a sale',
What's sold is yet beyond the pale--
The check is always in the mail.