/// This is Ludwig, the Third, of Bavaria—
(final King of that large German area).
Revolution he fled,
fearing he’d end up dead
from the new anti-monarchs hysteria.

/// Until late nineteen-eighteen he reigned.
“But that’s only five years,” he complained.
“King through Europe’s Great War,
and then ruler no more.”
but did not abdicate, he maintained.

/// He’d been named as a newly born lad
after Ludwig, the First, his granddad,
and should not be confused
with the King much abused,
cousin Ludwig, (the Second), the Mad.

/// “Mad King Ludwig” had ordered things built.
Huge constructions, all lavish with gilt.
Over-spending was real;
told advisors to “steal.”
Lived a fantasy life; girls he’d jilt.

/// (In America most have a “thing”
against rulers who act like a King.
If he claims he has might
bestowed by Divine Right,
he’s a con-man enacting a sting.)