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Sonnet: Twenty Years of Schoolin' and They Put You On the Day Shift*

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Sonnet: Twenty Years of Schoolin' and They Put You On the Day Shift*

by John Kendall Hawkins

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O, you could almost feel the heavy weight drop

from our shoulders as Big Mouth blew off high

into wind currents he did not control.

Please come back, some cried. I can't, said the pol,

I've risen and can't get down from the sky.

I love you, DJ, cried a knee-neck cop.

Magically He took Covid up with Him;

He dropped miracle vaccines by the score,

and we went back to a nation confused --

heartless, brainless, arthritic, child abused.

Jan Sixers stormed, yelled, Nancy, you're a whore!

FBI narcs dressed just like Tiny Tim.

What a mess we've made of democracy!

Caligula sideshow hypocrisy.


(Article changed on Jul 29, 2021 at 4:30 PM EDT)

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