Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: Thus Passes the Glory of the World

In Sic Transit Gloria Mundi, Beukes sets the sights of his moral compass straight at the corrupted systems and institutions that control the global levers of power. His poems pour out with laments that decry the injustices perpetrated against everyday citizens by governments, financial oligarchs, big tech monopolies, and military adventurists who have upturned modern civilization through their craven lust for complete dominance over the earth's terrain as well as in the minds of its people....