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The Condition of Our Condition
A Poet’s Perspective.
Part One ~ 2018 The Warning
Fools whose actions conflict and betray
what their lips say can be kept at bay.
But smart ones don’t give themselves away.
Sly foxes conceal intent from their prey.
These are threats to our democratic way.
They ease in furtively, and once they’re in play,
they will appoint rogues to positions of sway,
dismiss anyone who might someday betray,
and install biased judges who’ll do what they say.
They’ll decry darker races
and the way that we pray,
all the while denigrating
and repudiating the gay.
They’ll suppress the free press
and restrict what we can say.
Then they’ll impose martial law,
enforced by Aryans dressed in gray.
The rule of law will be, but a utopian cliché
after their lemmings help to throw it away.
The unenlightened who lack social mores
will sacrifice all our freedoms someday.
