- 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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We debouched from the copse, after hiding from the cops.
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.