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ARTIST GENERAL'S WARNING: Too Much Depend$
Upon The Red Bandwagon Glazed With Bloodshed Beside The Gray
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WHEN DISSENT BLINKS, DEMOCRACY STUMBLES
"...
opposite..."
THE SECOND SUCCUMBING
–Apologies
to W.B. Yeats / The Second Coming
Turning and Spinning in the Widening Mire
The Congress cannot hear the Precedent;
Things fall apart; the Party cannot hold;
Sheer Conarchy is loosed upon Democracy,
The freedom-gouging tide is loosed, and everywhere
The Standing of America is downed;
The best convictions are too polite, while the worst
Are full of obtuse intensity;
Surely some Reason is at hand.
Yet there instead, the Patriot “Act”!
The “Patriot” Act!
Hardly are those words out
When an Orwelled image out of Posse Comitatus
Troubles my sight:
Somewhere in the martial curfews of this seminal Treachery
A shape with Oz-lion body and the head of a borne-again Fool:
An ‘Aye’ blank and clueless as the GOP itself
Is moving its leaky Trojan Agenda, but who knew?
While overhearing guffaws & careless cheering
from the belly of the beast, that all about it now should
gather threats of patriotic fillibuster, lighting & passing torchfire.
…Wounded cowardice drops again; but indignant courage
finds unexpected stride, in the edifying irony
that a Sitting President was on his Game after all,
as if afloat, fishing! entirely untorn,
glued from National Nightmare to “My Pet Goat.”
And what Hellbent Vision Thing,
its Truthless Power come round at last,
$louches towards
--Artist General
YES-WE-CAN:
CRAMP THEIR
GUILE
"
SWAGMENT
OF THE IMAGINATION:
Show-YOU-know from...
The Department of Homeland DEMOCRACY Security
"Because absent DEMOCRACY,
we don't
HAVE a "HOME-land"
FLAUNT YOUR
SUPPORT
...Nothing
carries the day better
than
the "Soft" POWER
of an Idea Whose Time Has Come...
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