Self-proclaimed MAGA American Patriots?

Living-room political armchair Generals

High on their nationalistic credentials from guns anti-refugee fervor and fentanyl?

Have never served a day

Nay! Even a minute in service!

Either as volunteer

Officer or conscript

Is this why your undying conception of soldier and citizen is flipped?

Patriotic Soldiers salute the flag!

As part of their duty to honor and protect their Motherland

Great American citizens

With hand over heart

Commit democratically to defend the right

To protest!

On economic

Social and political issues

When deemed justly necessary as Citizen emissaries to make a moral stand

The military was composed

To ensure the American Liberty Bell will always ring!

It is my fervent distinction to have served in the United States Army 101st Airborne division – 320th Field Artillery

Defending the rights so hard fought for in American history past

Via such esteemed Americans as Frederick Douglass

John Brown

Malcolm X

Sojourner Truth

Doris Day

Helen Keller

Muhammad Ali

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

Susan B. Anthony

Mother Jones

And Dr. Martin Luther King

Karl Heinrich Marx was a German writer and intellectual

Who explained how a capitalist society works

The process

The mechanics

The reasoning

And thus the irrational quirks

Many of  the philosopher

Economist

Historian

Sociologist

Political theorist

Journalist

And socialist revolutionary Marx teachings are utilized to invest in capital by Wall Street firms

His onerous tomes explaining the means and manifestations of capitalism

Are simply a technical tutorial roadmap for Citizens/ consumers

In understanding the inner workings of capitalism for the unlearned

The Poor Least Department

A mother and her son

Were killed in Jamaica Queens on 183rd Street

When a raging flood

Tore through their “hood”

And into their “Illegal” basement apartment

Drowning them to the quick!

Along with the rodents mice cockroaches and assorted insects

Of their fleeting life sustaining

Solvent oxygen allotment

Thoughts and prayers!

Will be the usual societal comportment

Yet no economic

Social nor political change will be enacted

Or sought after upon this shameful development!

How can the richest society on Earth!

Allow these types of ongoing societal crimes

To go on recklessly with abandon

The only “fix” sought being some individual punishment

Carried out by the Police Department

The Free Market Frankenstein Monster Society

Cares little for shining light

To these unfortunate scrimping kinds

The tragedies are suffered

And paid for on “others” dime

Turn the page

Nothing to find?

Only the heartbreak of the families

Of the sick imperiled and dying of

The Poor Least Department

Kittums the Cat

Believes that Millie the Hound

And Nahla

The Pitbull Profound!

Are his Mom!

Adopted as a wee two-week old kitten

From the local food mart

None of his unusual upbringing

Has given him qualms?

I even nicknamed him Kee-yahm!

He has always returned home to our abode

Known for its loving care

Exhibiting his fondness for the home

With a preternatural calm

Perhaps he was too young departed

Of his beloved fam’

To miss his brethren

And his Dearest Dam!

Thankfully he does not seem in any way impaired

Cats are solitary in their ways

Cryptically Kittums has never acquired

The environmental alley-cat taste of the strays

As a strong independent-minded cat

He does things his way

Looks like he is here to stay!

Purring all the way

As he brushes his body and wagging tail

Each morning

Before vittles

On Millie The Hound’s face

Acknowledges Nahla’s exuberant grace

And mine legs!

Picking me up from the dregs

With a specious smile and devoted gaze

Ready in a flash!

To scratch and claw away any intruder!

From the Bard’s House of Tudor!

Which attempts to bring into his comfortable world

Disarray!

Pop! Pop!

Make you drop!

Fall down hard!

Who needs a scorecard?

Disney fighter taking on Mixed Martial Arts?

Does the Mickey Mouse boxer have the toughness?

The skills?

The smarts?

One thing is for certain once the bell rings

If Jake Paul magnanimously wins

To Anthony Joshua’s chagrin

He will have proven he has the chin

To continue his knock-out sins

From America to Berlin

As the You-Tube star’s opponents big stage headlight ends

The brash new age sweet science marauder’s

Pugilistic journey violently begins

With pomp circumstance

A heavy vicious right hand

And sly grin

The second Moderna vaccine created whole body chills!

Head to toe had taken leisure to entertain an Arctic thrill!

As I shivered in bed thinking of my personal safety amongst the pandemic dread

A feeling of tranquility engrossed me as I lay icily twitching in the chamber bed

Hath I garnered individual safety from the Covid-19 disease?

Surely my headache general discomfort and the most cold carnal chilling sensations will matter than least!

Eventually I pondered the effects would wane from the vaccine

Possibly I could entertain the anti-vaccine complainants with my most flavorful holiday roast beast!

To explain my treatise on the beneficial prospects of the Covid vaccines!

And banish their fears of a horrid outcome from a gaping incision!

Their muscles growing bigger!

As they turned horribly Hulk green?

Then it was when I realized!

My future prospects had turned from frightening!

Bitter!

Shuttered!

Daunting!

Dark and positively bleak!

To bright sunny!

Community honey

Bee-autiful!

Colorful flowers

Green grass

And fantastically Covid disease effects limited sanguine!

Cornel West

On the Love Train quest!

Integrity

Honesty

Decency

Love

These spirited attributes constantly being put to the economic social and political test!

Professor West

Cuts radically against the grain

Black Reconstruction politics era regained

Invested in the W.E.B. Dubois styled societal socialist class conquest

Contemplation of his oration

Thus is to find for the mind

Inheriting as it were

A wave of historical truth and deliverance of pain

Washed over historical pusillanimous

Purportedly pure and politically plain

The Professor’s oratory is by Design

An intellectual properly contextualized treasure chest

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world she walks into mine!

Mama Kitty and the movie-land Walter Mitty!

Papa! The Old Movie to VHS Tape Mastermind!

Thespian roles by Humphrey Bogart

James Cagney

Errol Flynn

The Zorro Serials

King Kong (original)

Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce)

Along with instructions on the exploits of Babe Ruth

Joe Dimaggio (The Greatest)

Mickey Mantle

And dissecting and prospecting New York Yankees games!

All in the Family television moments to wonder at Pop’s sudden display of emotions!

Windows through time into his personality

Thoughts and notions!

He would invite you to watch the early film masterpieces

And suddenly become emotive and outspoken!

Tears would flow down his cheeks!

As he opened up inside!

I could hear his mind opine!

The subtext of Don Joseph Reith’s greatest dreams

And reality intertwined

Whereas generally these displays of expressive reaction

From Pops

Were hard to find!

The inability to show his feelings were a tell-tale sign

Of his Silent Generation Silver Screen times

These classics seemed dipped with a magic psychosomatic potion

Here was the solitary place Father

Would enter into the emotive world!

Dad’s wildest dreams unfurled

Inside the focused lens of the cinematic sublime

Where fact and fiction is blurred

How much money have we spent in Afghanistan?

What has the United State war accomplished there in 20 years?

Families of combatant soldiers

Civilian tears

Why should we put more domestic American tax-paying trillion dollars in arrears?

Can military Imperialism overtake all obstacles?

Other than wasting more time and joy

Lives

With our military toys?

Burning structures and capital

Soldiers and civilian casualty tears

Best to leave well enough alone

Allow Israel to strive for peace in their abode?

Let the Afghani’s and Taliban

Iran

Settle their ancestral home

Did not Constantine?

The Barbarians and the Vandals

Lead to the fall of Rome?

Shalt we deal more honestly?

Natural resources are not mined for democracy

Economy?

With integrity

For posterity

Our international and domestic

Oil induced and created

Terrorist fears

Weapons of Mass Destruction?

Nuclear bombs

Middle East Wars for Years

Does nil for American families

Only offering up combatant and civilians to the bombardiers

Arms dealer and oligarch crocodile tears

Politicians campaign war chest Make Israel Great Again cheers

All the while Climate Change is pushed to the rear

Clean energy gets you out of the game

To the new frontier

Have to give it up for KD and the American team

When the Olympic Games started their play was not super clean

Then Milwaukee Buck Champs

Jrue Holiday and Khris Middleton

And post-season runner-up Phoenix Sun Devin Booker

Came on the basketball scene

Soon the USA Basketball team started playing a stifling defense and running the offense like hoop-star fiends!

France at first glance

Did not seem to belong in the Big Dance

With the prodigious NBA All-Stars

Yet Rudy Gobert (Utah Jazz), Evan Fournier (NY Knicks), Nicolas Batum (LA Clippers) and point guard Nando De Colo (Knicks should sign immediately) ignited a winners-take-all war!

If you put Kevin Durant on the French roster

As The Black Panther Imposter!

I believe then the story would go

The Frenchman celebrating

Paris wins the 2021 Olympic Basketball gold!

Yet Kevin Durant proved like fine wine from the Napa Valley

The best athletes age swell!

As his gifted American superstar performance

Cool as a cucumber

Primed to excel

Show-and-Tell!

Never gets old