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Sonnet: If You See A Tyrant, Say Something

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by John Kendall Hawkins

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We, the People, are now the enemy.

1 percenters own the Constitution,

designed to protect the rich and famous,

framed with lawyerly laws to tame us --

the genteel federalist institution

that defends property and 'old' money..

We, the people, the 99 percent,

thrown a bone of Rights at the inception

are the real exceptionalists. We're free.

We're duty-bound to put down tyranny.

400 million guns speak rejection

to white overlord pretensions: Get bent.

Sooner or later we'll have to fight back

Punching 1 percent face will be good craic


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