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A Party of Dreadful Somebodies

5/16/2017

 

The court was compromised
    When Gorsuch took a seat,
No greater threat devised
    Nor greater the conceit
Whereby—once highly prized— 
    Civility was beat.

A party grew in strength
    That little cared for truth
Or honesty at length,
    But short-term goals pursu’th
Though onus overhang’th
    Its villainies uncouth.

For self-interested greed
    It sacrificed in stealth
Then openly, indeed,
    The utter commonwealth,
As wars on truth proceed
    Called “of the state the health.”

The apparatus must
    Have decimated cogs
And minions, who will just
    Serve thieves and demagogues,
With slanders croaked robust
    Ubiquitous like frogs.

So rampant and widespread
    The slanders grew and came
To muddle every head,
    And honesty defame,
Till none would dare to tread
    Near truth but crouched in shame.


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