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The Veritable “Evil Axis”

5/13/2017

 

There was no “evil axis” found
    Between Saddam Hussein
And Saudi terrorists who downed
    Two skyscrapers by plane— 

Though it was used to justify
    The waging unjust war
(A war of plunder, none deny,
    Deceptive at its core).

However in the “homeland” (as
    Colonialists might say)
An even greater axis has
    Revealed itself today,

Domestically the greatest threat
    A nation ever saw:
Evil like you ain’t seen it yet
    Subverts the roots of law.

The Gorsuch-and-McConnell axis
    Designed so to ensure
That never wealthy owner lacks his
    Protected sinecure.

Let all the rabble and the poor
    Be drained of what they have,
Be bled at work in peace or war,
    In wage reduced to slave.

It was for this the Judge was propped,
    McConnell lent his hand,
The Constitution to co-opt,
    Legitimacy banned.

They strove to fell the government,
    A judge, some senators,
Nor citizens were innocent
    In charting the wild course.

With repercussions yet unknown
    It’s “each man for himself,”
The treasured Constitution thrown
    In tatters on some shelf,

To be forgotten, even as
    Civility has failed— 
The evil axis too must pass,
    Democracy derailed.

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