I think I got too ambitious with this one in the time frame, to the point of it reading pretty badly. Note to self- political commentary in a short time frame is a bad idea. But rules are rules, so here goes! Sincere apologies if any of this comes across as ignorant or offensive.

I think of Aristotle as I pass through the Cotswolds

High up somewhere in these rolling hills

Oliver Cromwell fought the royalists to establish the English Commonwealth

More recently, a little further down

A bunch of “travellers” raided the local corn farms

Establishing trailers and declaring it their property

Two events separated in time and stature

Yet also similar

Both revolutions against establishment

Led by people firm in their beliefs

But I think of how they end[ed]

And my mind goes back to Aristotle

Politics, revolution, democracy or mobocracy?

Which one are they?

Who is right?

And who is wrong?

Alas

I guess it is not as black and white as the Tudor townhouses