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Anticipating Intervention

7/31/2017

 

When will the army swoop in
    To take over the reins,
Because there’s so much poop in
    (Foul smell, excreta, stains)
The offices of government
    That have been in the charge
Of party hacks—vain men hell-bent
    Self-interest to enlarge?

When will the military
    Decide “Enough’s enough,”
Civilian hari-kari
    Has made the going rough,
With Senators and House Reps or
    At least a certain faction
Committed but to more and more
    Obstruction and inaction?

The legislature (rather
    A faction: the Repubs)
Has substituted blather
    As fit for privy clubs,
Instead of taking seriously
    The duties in their trust,
And sloughed responsibility
    For private gains unjust.

It was a certain party
    Through slander and deceit,
Employment of tricks dirty
    To denigrate and cheat,
Destroyed the trust in government
    And put a wannabe
Dictator in as president,
    Its own epitome.

The chaos as expected
    Splays outward sans control,
The state nor more protected
    Since having lost its soul— 
The public merely talking of
    Democracy to scoff it,
More interested in showing love
    For luxury and profit.

Civilians lacking virtue
    Have lost all discipline
(No matter how you search you
    Find not a jot within),
So what is left? They fail to rule
    Themselves, with prospects scary,
Each other vying fool for fool— 
    “Bring on the military.”

So citizens will holler
    Who squelched the living flame
Of freedom by the dollar,
    As though it were a game:
The reckless quest for profit that
    Eclipses all the rest
Of dignity for diddly-sqat
    Has turned self-rule a jest. 


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