9 Trumpidor

On 9 Thermidor Year II (27 July 1794), the French politician Maximilien Robespierre was denounced by members of the National Convention as "a tyrant", leading to Robespierre and twenty-one associates including Louis Antoine de Saint-Just to be arrested that night and to be beheaded on 28 July.

The tyranny of the son

arrests the tyranny

of the father, who arrests

the tyranny of eternity

I am the punisher of the son

I irradiate the wind anhydrous

So no one smiles, no one cares

no one dares to challenge me

and no river meets the sea

I am the revolution

to dissolve the ancient regime

and blood soaks the land

and lies dissolve reality

I am the fear of the wreck

as we wreck ourselves

I once was a painter

and I put on the helmet

of Cortez to conquer

the land with golf courses

But now a balancing woman

looks over her shoulder,

naming a guillotine date

for me

She is pitiless and swinging free

as my fun house mirror mind

is cut loose

from the body of the world