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The Hemlock Maneuver: A Sonnet

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The Hemlock Maneuver: A Sonnet

In memory of Jeremy Corbyn
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o first they came for the anti-semites

and everyone (but them) clapped like crazy

because we all knew they deserved their fates

letting the horror caused become hazy

and then they came for the terror poets

who would need enhanced interrogation

they hated us, life, or both, poor pet goats

whose antics changed our belove'd nation

then one day they knocked for our free-thinking

visions of Pol Pot pyramids of skulls

schemed their way to the sky, the unblinking

sun surveilled the offal-high luffing gulls

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