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A Regime With No King


by Amanda Harris


The regime with no king, born out of 
 an Anarchist need to both question and usurp, 
grew thorns in the shape of questions and 
questions in the shape of thorns. “There is 
only blank space in this regime”, says Susie, 
the eight-year-old who imagined this regime 
out of grape juice and fairy dust. Blank space 
governs the minds of small children— 
That is the secret children keep from imaginary 
kings and parents—the latter a kind of villain 
to everybody but Susie. In Paradise Lost, it says 
to love your tiny devils. Actually, it doesn't, 
but that does not mean Susie cannot tug 
on mythical underwear and call it fact. 
Facts are strange things invented by kings. 
Kings, like small children, grow fangs.
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