It's Time to Kill the Beast

We threaten China every day.  We have our hands around
Its throat, forbidding this, restricting that, and China's only
One of those we bully and we persecute.  We hate the Russians,
So we goaded them into a proxy war by means of which we
Hope to end the threat they hadn't posed to us.  We march
Our troops up to the border of poor North Korea, which
Has never asked for anything, except a treaty ending war.
We strangle Cuba.  Why?  Who knows?  Perhaps because
Its government threw out our nation's mafia.  We, likewise,
Starve the Venezuelans and the people of Iran for having
Dared to overthrow the tyrants we had picked for them.
We arm assorted ethnic cleansers, Zionists and bloody
Turks.  There's no excuse for who we are, and what we do.  
We're simply evil.  If there's justice in the world, we'll soon
Be destroyed.





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Written on 2024-05-08 at 23:13

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alarian The PoetBay support member heart!
I love this one
2024-05-09


Griffonner The PoetBay support member heart!
In the end I think 'the beast' kills itself. To paraphrase: "There are more beasts in the world than there are countries!"
Blessings, Allen
2024-05-09