Ode to Villans (First draft)

[Lawrence]

I'm going to add more to this. I just need a critique for what is here.
Thanks


I love all tales where villains win;
Villains who, at story’s end,
Are on the right side of a gun-
Regardless of the ills they’ve done

I love to watch the peasants weep
Or criminals outplay police
Or goblins pouring through a gate
Or flames consume the king’s estate.

And all the hero’s gallant dreams
Die beneath a guillotine;
No matter book or film or play
The end is always best that way-

Where not an ash of hope survives
No sequels, encores, seconds tries
The audience, as hush as stone-
Hands-in-pockets, shuffles home