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The Amber Room of the Czars, as Re-Imagined for a Hotel Lobby
A bloated Calvinist acquired and built
In vanity, in glory to himself
A pleasure-cube of cubits many, high
But not as high as vanity ascends
Like ziggurats, in mockery of Heaven,
Wherein strange brazen chariots in tubes
Ascend, descend, bearing those mighty men
Who bear their manhoods cheap i’th’ presence of
Their alpha whale on whom hair never sets
That bloated Calvinist Epiphanes
(Exeunt omnes, disdained by a toad)
[Allusions to Genesis, Coleridge, Shakespeare, and Milton]
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