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# The Beginning of the End
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/the-beginning-of-the-end/
- Published: 2022-03-03T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-03-03T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: vessels nestle in safe harbors costly castles, butlers, barbers maids for those who had it made Escalades and escapades retinue, Fifth Avenue confiscated, but who knew
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Short Poem, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

vessels nestle in safe harbors  
costly castles, butlers, barbers  
maids for those who had it made  
Escalades and escapades  
retinue, Fifth Avenue  
confiscated, but who knew

they should have known, these oligarchs  
payback is a bitch, said Marx