• gerontocracy - a political system governed by old men
  • winnowing - the act of separating the grain from the chaff; select the desirable parts of a group or list; to cull
  • rueful - feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for offenses
  • onerous - not easily borne; wearing (burdensome, taxing)
  • copse - a dense growth of bushes
  • brake - an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant

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    • j4k3@lemmy.worldOPM
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      The thugs of the gerontocracy saw y’all emerge from the brake. Without an onerous thought, the bullets sprayed across the coppice in a rueful winnowing of frenetic antipathy, their stolid expressions giving way to ebullience, ministering their ineffable pall, as the diminuendo of final susurrations fades to a sanguine-white noise of silence.