Der Fuhrer’s Catcall

 

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Since when does working at a job

Any job

Preclude your First Amendment rights?

The supposition that veterans do not support protesting for human rights is a non-patriotic slight

By those who have never had the enemy in their M-16 sights

It does not make you a Soldier/Patriot because you have as a Citizen deemed it proper to salute the flag

Enlist if you wish and risk coming back from never-ending American wars in a bodybag

If Citizens cannot protest as they see fit protected by the First Amendment

Then it is you who are acting as a Nazi and have condemned them

Who hath let Der Fuhrer’s cat out of the bag!

You are paying Trillions of dollars for Military conflicts around the World

While showing your Constitution to be as worthless as a rag

 

 
 
 

Ode to the Mother Lode from a former 101st airborne soldier

Mirror Image

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What is it to be an identical twin?

To come together when you begin
Entwined intuitively to each other’s sin

Adorned individually
In matching fashion

Sharing hobbies!

Arts!

Sports and cultural passions!

Nature has no explanation
For such things

Genes can create
Unique beings!

Cultivating life
In changing seasons

Mirror! Mirror!
On the wall

What is your reasoning?

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The Nature of the Pugilist

The Master crafts the golden fields over many years toiling in the Sweet Science

Perfecting pugilistic stiff jabs, left hooks, feints, crosses, lateral movement, superior hand speed, defensive measures, sturdy chin, fit-as-a-fiddle, and ingenuity to defeat his marauding clients

Braggarts, rubes, loud-mouths, and boasters cannot successfully wade deep into his earned – and learned – league

As if the strongest man can conquest by hand the most vaunted creatures of the sea?

A charging Bull is hit first last and in-between
‘Fore finally fleeing
The swift agile precise strikes of the Bee

The Nature of the Boxing Game

After all of these years
Alas is still the same

When you enter into the weeds

Survival of the Fittest
Goes to the creatures
Who have evolved the tactics
To succeed
Fighting!

into their genes

REASONING

Reasoning is evolutionarily quite new 
It wouldn't have helped in Krakau 
If you were a Jew 

It wouldn't have helped
If you were so brave 
As to question authority 
As to why you are a slave? 

It wouldn't have helped
If you were a witch 
Not one tiny bit of hair 
Not even a stitch 

It wouldn't have helped 
If you were stuck in Katrina 
Waiting on some help
From officials from FEMA 

It wouldn't have helped
If you were a Prisoner of War
For the guardsmen to have mercy
And open the door 

Or to a Native American
Looking at those really big boats 
Sailing in towards the shore

It wouldn't have helped 
If you were an "I Have a Dreamer" 
With Bull Connor's dogs teeth attached to your femur

Or simply a citizen that day In Nagasaki or Hiroshima

Will it help the bold and audacious young protesters in Hong Kong?
Singing a glorious international freedom song!
Or the patriotic George Floyd 
American and world-wide protest 
Against vigilante police 
Redemption throngs?

Or the Gazans'thousands 
Innocent! 
Slaughtered via the Israeli Zionist bombs

Yes reasoning this day 
I pray 
Has it evolved?

For it is many the questions

That need to be solved