Situation turned precarious
as Sole Super Power crumbles
Scary, while outright hilarious
how its Power Elite stumbles
Exceptionalism losing gloss
down to bare metal, corroding fast
Nations sneer at World’s former Boss
History shows: Empires never last
Fading, ever steeped in arrogance,
Super Power tries to butt in
Civilization won’t stand a chance
when someone presses The Button:
Humans yields to cockroaches its powers
as planet swirls, a space ball that glowers
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-button = the nuclear weapon launching one
-exceptionalism = here the American such: ‘the indispensable nation’; ‘shining city on the hill’, etc., miraculously always the defender of what’s good, while needs not respect international law or the suffering it brings to people in foreign cultures (and systemically to its own)