The central theme of "Ozymandias" is the inevitable complete decline of all leaders, and of the empires they build, however mighty in  their own time.

---Wikipedia

The central theme of Ozymandias Jones II is the inevitable rise of underground kingdoms as governments lead their nations  into complete decline.

---Xenonlit

Ozymandias Jones II

Chapter 1

Ozymandias Jones II considered himself to be a player. He was Ramsis and Tuk. He was the Pharoah of forty blocks.

His father, Ozymandias Jones I,  was the greatest ruler ever known, a warrior of fearsome qualities, a hero who died for days when gasoline was poured on and lit to burn him bit by bit. His agonized shudders ended without him giving his captors one bit of helpful news.

Ozymandias Jones II ascended to the throne in a blaze of glory and with fierce battles with the sadistic and murderous enemy who killed the Pharoah. 

His third eye could see the fields of battle, the plains of negotiation and the mazes of conspiracy in ways that Hannibal never knew. 

Ozymandias Jones II ruled his forty blocks with masterful greatness. Mayors and aldermen were caught in his net. He pulled the guts out of the corrupted authorites and self deluded heroes who sought to make a name for themselves in his kingdom.

He mastered the arts of exchanging money in handcuffed briefcases for goods and services and substances of great value.  He husbanded lands and structures that spread far and wide. He owned beaches and warehouses; port accesses and farms; mansions and media; politicians and citizens.

His enemies gave up on their attempts to destroy his empire and found profit in peaceful collaboration. Through the decades, the Pharoahs  jointly tapped the vast wealth of the underground economies.  Through the decades the forty block Pharoahs enriched, entertained and empowered themselves, forty blocks at a time.

Ozymandias Jones II had three daughters  who were of great beauty and composure. His three girls grooved through life in luxury and security, stealing the hearts of the many but giving access only to the few. They were of good character and great intelligence, these girls. They were brilliant in their practice of strategic ignorance and remained free of any spiritual, emotional or legal entanglement with their father's concerns.

Ozymandias Jones II had a son who walked in light, no matter how dark the land or dim the room.  He surpassed his father in the arts of managing nets and rooms and compartments and cases. No law would lay a hand on him, even when he drew the guts of his enemies in temples and places where no outsider dared to go.

 Ozymandias Jones II cast many complicated nets and he cast them wide.

And the government became distracted by its slow decline into corruption and inefficiency until it could no longer bother with the affairs of Ozymandias Jones II.

Chapter 2

During a wee hour in December, Ozymandias Jones awoke with a fire in his third eye.

He percieved that a fish was caught in his complicated web of nets. This fish had the sharpest of teeth and would cut the net. This would allow his catches, from the largest whale to the tiniest creature, to escape into the wilds of society and the law.

Like all great rulers, Ozymandias Jones knew to send out his fishermen, who pulled each and every one of his nets so as to examine them closely. And their close examination revealed the presence of one strange and sharp toothed fish, an errant knight who saw opportunity to make a move for himself.

Ozymandias captured the sharp toothed fish, ordered the bloody repair of his social nets and had them cast again. He put the sharp toothed fish into his private collection and fed it with lies and addictive substances.

But the sharp toothed fish had a venemous bite and made to nip at Ozymandias Jones just prior to his release. Ozamandias Jones fell ill and died within hours.

And the government, having stolen the nation's treasure, gave the treasure to the Heathens. The government receded and declined into foolish spectacle and untruthful nonsense until it had neither treasure nor free agents to expend on the death or life of a  Pharoah of forty blocks. 

Chapter 3

Ozymandias Jones III considered himself to be a player. He was Ramsis and Tuk. He was the  Pharoah .

 His father, Ozymandias Jones II,  was the greatest ruler ever known, a warrior of fearsome qualities, a hero who died from the bite of a poisoned fish. His agonized shudders ended without him showing his enemies one bit of weakness to exploit.

Ozymandias Jones III ascended to the throne in great ceremonies and with plush meetings to cement the peace with his potential enemies. He gutted the sharp toothed fish that poisoned the  Pharoah.

And the government, having stolen the nation's treasure and given it to the Heathens, had nothing left to prosecute a battle with the unassailable new Pharoah, Ozymandias III.  

The End