Need for Thneed
Camelot or Capua
Labyrinth now coliseum
carnage museum ala ravine
Chivalry or cowardice
kingdom coup’d to dictatorship
torture vortex without hope
Mordred appeared in silence
to remind Daedalus of his reach
who do the dead die for but to entertain
congratulations on completion
the Labyrinth will bleed them dry
bodies sew seeds of worry
what will grow from the dead
but more tax
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Interesting engagement with these legends, the figure of Mordred especially. I’ve never been able to read his name without thinking More Dread, which maybe is the point.