No need for the KKK.
No need for Nazis.
No need for MAGA.
No need for a Tea Party.
Not today.
Pump T not into the harbor,
but into young white men.
Into a military cleared of women,
people of color, and gays.
Young men who joined to serve
in a citizen army meant to save
peoples’ freedoms and the aspirations
of a constitutionally protected nation.
Instead, testosterone infusions
will create such confusion
and a masculinity
straining their humanity
with drugged brutality;
an aggression pumped up in display,
ordered now to act in a way
that serves the few leaders,
not the nation nor its citizens.
Leaders who will not allow soldiers
to show their humanity.
Soldiers drugged to match their leaders’ insanity.
Soldiers sent to control elections.
Soldiers whose protections
are meant only for the wealthy con men
who cheat and steal from honest men and women
working too many jobs to pay attention
to leaders’ lies and disaffection
for principles soldiers were meant to offer protection.
No checks and balances on insanity.
No effort to save our humanity.
First, we must protect our soldiers.
Only then, can we protect ourselves.
annarino writes 