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Averting our empty eyes

Q: “Why are you not putting on a mask?”
A: “I’m not culpable for your health
I’m self-reliant, so do not ask
also won’t be blamed for my wealth!”

If this is how some of us are
how did we stray so deep & far?

Q: “Still thinking we’re better than this?”
A: “We’re no effete Swedes or feeble French
so, World, come give U.S. a kiss!”
(albeit amidst conceited stench)

Thus we keep up the narrative:
Pretending to empathize
high-handed & declarative
averting our empty eyes

Masklessness leaves the Covid threat cowardly vague
while masked have we not faced that we’re all in a plague?

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Virus Justice

‘Leaders’ now talk about the Covid-19 struggle as ‘war’. If so – a long overdue change from the gruesome practice throughout history of sending the very young out to fight & die. Fairer now when the old folks at home become the casualties. Still what remains the outrage is how ‘essential’ workers (many poorly paid with few benefits & poorly protected) are sent out to work & die.

In most wars the young
were sent out to perish
most often unsung
or cheered with praise garish

The old folks at home jingoistic
of soldiers horrors euphemistic

Now in the Covid ‘war’
with its surreptitious gore
Lady Justice keeps score
shredding such mythical lore

Now the young live for another day
while the old folks keep dying away

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While our attention is elsewhere

Gained quite the stage presence
that Virus wily & vile
Might its omnipresence
the Power Elite beguile

as trade-off to crisis protracted
when our attention got distracted?

Stole away our concentration
on workplace exploitations
on our climate abdication
on cruel deportations

Elbowed out our awareness
of corporate giveaways
societal unfairness
injustice in too many ways

Rarely been better times
for scamming & high crimes

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Undiscerning Nation overturning

Whether of faith or agnostic
we flounder in Expiring Empire
Of human collapse prognostic
sped on by greed, covid & gunfire

Those propagandized still exude
a world outlook simplistic
Frantically they self delude
pious, proto-fascistic

and for all they claim to have the Godly answers
aren’t they a bunch of round-the-Golden-Calf dancers?

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Mischief under guise of virus relief

Blown in Twitter storm
amidst benign bloopers
howling locust swarm
of goosestep storm troopers

Under guise of virus relief
they’re bent on making the sky darken
up to their usual mischief
hoping we’re too busy to harken

The Power Elite doesn’t work for our protection
nevertheless we whimper in genuflection

 

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Exploits deadlocks dreadfully dismal

Shrewd, be he not adroit
integrity abysmal
he knows how to exploit
deadlocks dreadfully dismal

He barges in by blaming
foul, rudely aggressive
insulting & inflaming
A loudmouth oppressive

How splendidly the President mirrors
his base of exceptionalist sneerers!

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What is so ‘sweet & right’ with others’ dead end plight

Since the Romans has echoed the jingoistic cry ‘Dulce et Decorum est Pro Patria Mori’ or ‘It is sweet and right to die for one’s country’:

Awash in gushing
about what’s ‘sweet & right’
while not much blushing
of others’ dead end plight

While some ‘laid down’ their lives
at home Jingoists grandstand
keep slapping their high-fives
while just The Dead know first-hand

But why bother taking time to reflect
when easier just accept or reject?

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The ‘soaring’ 2020’s

How hastily they faded
the 1920s jaded!

Now roar the 2020s
optimism restoring
but in unequal plenties
with AI faith soaring

But hurricanes rage, forests burn down
with neo-Fascism on the rise
civil & economic breakdown
in cruelly volatile guise

Now misruled by kakistocracy
brought us humiliating lows
mired in horrific hypocrisy
to suffer unknowable throes

Anytime soon now The Free Fall
which we won’t be able forestall

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1920’s = the ‘roaring twenties’ with its boundless optimism about the future

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Jaws jutting, postures strutting

While one cheats in golf putting
other flinged racket in tennis
indicative, off-putting
of their deadly menace:

Benito Mussolini
full blown fascist, brazen
‘Donito Trumpolini’
proto-fascist, phase-in

Their egos dysplastic
spur their speeches bombastic

Their jaws jutting
language crude
postures strutting
manners rude

Died in ’45, Benito
while Donald lacking circumspection
not even close to finito
so runs again for reelection

Because both such slickers
brash, ignorant & tacky
they attract boot lickers
minions in millions, wacky

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-dysplastic = growth larger than normal
-golf, tennis = here: Don’s & Ben’s respective favorite sports