unending peace need not exceed our grasp
if we'd but raise our eyes above the State
and grant Leviathan a higher task
a League of Nations pacifying Fate
extrapolating Hobbes to span the world
each nation ceding partial sovereignty
what benefits to every boy and girl
would flow from its benign hegemony
monopolizing force would make it moot
for want of any Other to attack
were there no "them" there'd be no one to shoot
no bogeyman to hurl our insults back
Kant's vision may yet--one day--come to pass
were Boris Johnson not a braying ass
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