Ben, frankly, said, “...if you can keep it”,
outside that closed-windowed, hot, humid hall.
And, for a while, keep it we did,
however, in time, all things will fall.
[Compare this we must,
to “destroy it to save it”.
However unpleasant,
our species doth crave it.]
But let's pretend it isn't all over,
that moving forward “we can be friends”.
A Republic in theory, but with uncertain benefits.
Government “of, by, and for” us having come tothe end.
