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Call me a pacifist activist
deploring insanity of war,
never a Fitbit moon-unit
soldier of military industrial
complex, this articulate
baby boomer
verily stupefied,
openmouthed,
dumbfounded
at inane ill logic to send
best and brightest, or
even those
boasting commend
able faculties of body,
mind, and spirit
(tracing a long
jagged genealogical line
harkening millenniums 'pon
fighting for king crimson
ransom (demarcating advent
of civilization aggregating
en mass),
and subsequent
dawn of internecine
killing fields.
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Dictators topple
puppet regimes wobbling
viz falling dominoes
crumbling tombstones
roaming contemporary
caesars fiddle
Nero foo fighters
kindle burning desire
donned gawd father
issues hut
two, three, four...
tramping grapes of wrath
lady liberty
fruited plain laid waste,
raped, pillaged defrocked
inalienable rights:
pursuit of happiness
life, liberty sabotaged
dough bro’s rank
and file grunts
groom thinly veil
unbridled guise
coup d'etat
usurp democracy
constitution
left in tatters
scattershot
blitzkrieg genocide scored
martial fife and corporeal
contraband taps out air
key ping deign nasty
up magnificently arrayed
highland manor soldiers
bouzouki plucking
troubadour
looting accompanies
autocratic regime firebrand
dons singular purpose
affixes emergency
legislation suspended
emergency moratorium
stifles government
abrogates presidential elections
sanctioned covenants
blithely overthrown
social media linkedin
commoners coalescence
jackbooted oppressive
thugs click heels
protestation meted
with truncheon
tear gas canisters,
pistol whip, pepper sprayed
defiant demonstrators fold
resurgent subsequent
twittering uber vent
facebook, instagram,
snapchat recruit
communal cascade
brave combat gear
buttressed fighting
force feckless fealty
(take knee) pledge
allegiance furnish salvo
civilian guerillas
unexpected
tea and sympathy
reinforcements salvo
nsync with lockstep march
coup d'etat
spontaneous mission
unite dead reckoning
sites unwaveringly
"FAKE" feint obeisance
flaunts commander in chief
freedom fighters
fabricate "witch hunt"
megaphone blares
while POTUS
perfumed,
manicured, coiffed
particularly pleased
popinjay puzzled
barreling madding
crowd spurs surrender
presidential
incumbency abridged
ousted apprenticed
commander in chief
imprisoned under house arrest.
