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# The Antihero
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/the-antihero/
- Published: 2021-08-04T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-08-04T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: two thousand years of relentless propaganda and yet we persist writing operas about sympathy for the devil
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Short Poem, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

two thousand years  
of relentless propaganda  
and yet we persist  
writing operas  
about sympathy for the devil

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**Author notes:** https://allpoetry.com/contest/2785098-The-Rolling-Stones---In-5-lines for those interested, the Stones wrote this classic after reading Bulgakov's book -- which is itself a variation of the Faust story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Master\_and\_Margarita