Part II

The angst over the loss of Western Civ.
Why worry? Future Ciceros and Catos
can dance on TikTok to the week's motif,
performing with such passion and such pathos
and get so many warm and heartfelt likes?
No Cato was this cherished or adored,
nor Cicero beloved. Oh, you might "yikes"
at juvenile theatrics by the bored,
but really, have you carefully considered
that you've become irascible and old?
Bewildered, puzzled, stupefied, embittered
by being fully out, not in the fold?
Perhaps you're still enamored with your Gibbon.
No worries. Everyone will get a ribbon.