Grand Pontiff of Rehashed Apple Theorems

Poem by Scott Thomas Outlar

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Erecting a wall
        &/or building (commandeering) a fortress
    wouldn’t exactly be
               considered thinking/planning
        outside the box (typical behavioral patterns/
                                         Machiavellian traits/habits/agendas/modus operandi)
                      when it relates to how
                king/queen-ships & cultures
                          have operated throughout the years/cycles/rises/falls/hangovers
                                          of EMPIRE (quaking schematics/crumbling schism)