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Monday, April 27, 2026

PLEA TO A VISITING MONARCH

by Philip Kitcher




Dear Charles,
                        I beg you to invite
the chief source of our global plague
to visit Buck House one more time.

Then set the trap, and extradite
him to stand trial at The Hague
to close his long career of crime.

Recall the Cambridge past we share—
Fulfill a fellow student's prayer!


Like King Charles III, Philip Kitcher attended Cambridge University from 1966 to 1969.