Pansies (Lawrence)/Democracy

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DEMOCRACY
I am a democrat insofar as I love the free sun in menand an aristocrat in so far as I detest narrow-gutted, possessive persons.
I love the sun in any manwhen I see it between his browsclear, and fearless, even if tiny.
But when I see these grey successful menso hideous and corpse-like, utterly sunlesslike gross successful slaves mechanically waddlingthen I am more than radical, I want to work a guillotine.
And when I see working menpale and mean and insect-like, scuttling alongand living like lice, on poor moneyand never looking up,then I wish, like Tiberius, the multitude had only one headso that I could lop it off.
I feel that when people have gone utterly sunlessthey shouldn't exist.
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