Ka-Kis-To-Cracy Tanka Poem by Chen-ou Liu
Ka-Kis-To-Cracy Tanka
'ka-kis-to-cracy...'
my English teacher's voice
quivering
as 'U-S-A! ' chants get louder
from the crowd outside the school
FYI: The first part of the word comes from the Greek kákisto(s) , meaning "worst." So kakistocracy means "government by the worst." The earliest known use of the word was in the 1600s by Paul Gosnold, a loyalist to King Charles I during the English Civil War.
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