"While Mediocre Ulysses Was Preferred"

Arithmetic growth introduces
A division that leads to doubling,
Rather than simply getting bigger.

If we were not prone to growth, we would
Never have been forced to come apart,
To divide and attack each other

For what? More growth, more divisions,
More problems with wars and appanage,
Counting coup by probability,

So all that's natural is at war
And quick to use nature as a means
To supremely unreasonable

Laws and ends. Dissembler! Who can trust
You over the brave face of Ajax?
If you win, you won because you lose.