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Sonnet: Dirge for America

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The attack of killer fuckadoodledoodlers

is underway, and we have the hebewebes,

nervous wrecks, upside-the-head clowns. brown bagged boozers,

throwing away all our culture's swag, the leebees

we imagined were our birthright -- like, say, freedom

of expression, of religion, and of gunplay --

to Johnny-Reb and reconstruct Antietam,

and yodel "Que Sera Sera" (the Doris Day).

I once thought we just needed a bit of tweaking

to make the Experiment the best of all time --

a tad of socialism, equal rights, but freaking

J on the cross almighty, Freedom's turned to crime!

Citizens United, TARP bailouts, Trump's priors:

We've recklessly tossed the Bill into barrel fires.

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Heil Himmler indeed.

"People will Goebbel up anything these days."

"Bet you did nazi that one coming."

We need to go through this.

Yes, there will be terrible, heartbreaking suffering.

And yet, no doubt, this was the fate of fish becoming antiffians.

Evolution is never free of charge.

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