The bin laden documents do more to obscure than to enlighten, more for the legend than the reality.

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The docs cooked four years till they gave us a look,

(We can thank goodness The Man wrote no book.)

At least it's all served to wake up some buzz,

About OBL doing the stuff that he does:

Micro-management of the whole Qaeda shtick,

Bosses being bosses, ain't that a kick.

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He bitched at his men about being secure,

While keeping himself to a hovel obscure,

In which he took care of the kids and the wife,

Behind steel doors, a daily half-life.

For dinner I 'magine they passed through some scanners,

So Father could watch and correct table manners.

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Which brings up a question I've had from the start,

Regarding the Company and the spies' art.

Assuming The Man forgot once or twice,

And snapped at his boy about holding his knife,

How come the CIA didn't record it?

Surely history would greatly reward it.

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For as the tale goes, before the night raid,

They told the prez they still were afraid:

For they had no proof Osama was there.

Would our brave Seals end up swatting the air?

The spies had no sound-bite, no video flick;

Just one voice-print would've done the whole trick.

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It sounds to me like those fine spies begged off,

Recalling Iraq "nukes" at which all did scoff,

And grinning told Seals, "Take a selfie with O.,

Before his head to kingdom come do you blow."

But either in the moment the photo got muffed,

Or much more likely the whole thing was a bluff.

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But the spies got stuck as the clean-up brigade,

Creating a library specially made ,

To throw dirt on conspiracy like 9-11,

By setting it with dreams like UFO heaven,

And reams of docs about nothing particular,

And a dash of porn for that touch testicular.

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The point to pound is "This happened -- truly!"

(All the better if accounts are unruly.)

This from the folks who cough up Osamas ,

In time for re-'lection , Bush or Obama's.

Methinks it's just one more proof of the gap,

Between rulers and ruled, hustler and sap.

(Article changed on May 29, 2015 at 02:35)

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