Team sports
Televised and professionalized
Block voting
Mobs
Patriotism to the extreme
Allegiance, the scariest word ever
Waves
In Rome the factions were divided by color
For chariots
Or gladiators
And tangled in webs of corruption
Palatine Hill politics being as venal and sexualized then
As today
But what it comes down to
Is a great distraction
Emotional attachments to essentially nothing more than displays of uncommon skill
Microsecond reactions
Which help us forget the reign of terror
Absolutely
Lurking outside
At the gates
Which have started to shudder
David Trudel © 2013
