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.
MONEY, MONEY, MONEY
Money counts for nothing.
It has no intrinsic worth,
these tiny bits of metal
dug, then foundered from the earth.
Money adds no value to our lives.
Its value lies outside its cost to self.
Its only value is what it tells us.
Money talks after all.
It tells us what we truly value,
whom we raise up, and whom we let fall.
We bet our future on its use,
or bury it in secure vaults.
We use it to boast about greatness
while it hides our basest faults.
It buys the things around us.
It buys the myth of our safety.
It serves to remind us
we are nothing at all;
but, tiny specks in a universe
among many millions just like us,
trying to rise while gravity pulls us
around and down giant black holes.
Money fools us, a tool that uses us,
while we think we rule over others
just like us.
So, we gather it as best we can
to show we are better than
our fellow woman or man.
We cannot rely upon our own souls
to bring wisdom, love and life,
to end the useless strife.
We buy bullets instead of bread.
We drop bombs instead of supplies.
We destroy earth instead of fear.
We believe our own and others’ lies.
Money becomes our grand prize.
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