Don’t get involved in politics
Say the recipients of unrealized privilege
Don’t argue and have a good life
The world is a joke and learn how to laugh
say those who look and behave towards the mean
1 + 1 = 5
47 did something I approved of for once
Calling the Department of Defense
The Department of War
Because that is what it is
We defend jack shit
But boy,
We sure do like invading places
And involving ourselves in the wars of other peoples
Since 1945, too numerous to mention
I know this because I was going to list them all
But lists make for a poor excuse for poetry
But maybe we can be just as honest about all our institutions
The Department of Corporate Corruption
The Central Insurgency Agency
The Federal Bureau of Imprisonment
The Department of Hypocrisy and Human Suffering
The National Spying Agency
The Bought and Paid for Court
Will this be known as The Age of Cruelty?
If there is anyone left to think and feel
To see through the copaganda
And to rage against the regime
In the same week as more mass shootings, bomb threats,
Legal backing for racial profiling,
And a political podcaster reaping what they sowed
There is the horror of a movie about 50 young men
Volunteering to walk or be shot
In an America without hope
Based on a book that horrified me
when I was 13
Yet it Is tame compared to being a school kid in America today
Or watching the political violence
On the bleeding edge of tipping us into war
Hey, now we have a department for that
I always dismissed most dystopian fiction
I believed the line
“So this is how democracy dies – with thunderous applause”
Never believed that it would be like watching a slow-motion car crash
The majority feeling impotent to affect change
A piece of flotsam on troubled waters
It is not enough to call it unacceptable
It is not enough to say that it is a distraction
And protesting…
If congress and the courts can’t protect us
Then what are they for
Why do we pay for them,
Their health insurance
Their pensions
We are not a rogue state
We are a failed state
A police state
A disunited state
Police and governments who can’t tell the difference between anti-Semitic, anti-Zionist, and people protesting genocide
I will never forgive the Democrats for making me agree
with Marjorie Taylor Fucking Greene
I saw a post with a soldier saying we should have faith and trust our troops
As they patrol our streets with guns
Ready to backup a secret police force as it disappears people
One underclass at a time
Every Military Junta says to trust them at the start
To a people without hope
In an age of cruelty.
Image by James Ensor, Death Chasing the Flock of Mortals, 1896
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