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August 22, 2021

Sonnet: Afghanistan: The Taliban Advance to the Semi-Finals

By John Hawkins

Op-Ed Sonnet: Afghanistan: The Taliban Advance to the Semi-Finals The daily sonnet weighs in on the travesty. .

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TALIBAN.
TALIBAN.
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by John Kendall Hawkins


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for D W Pear

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On TV, Saigon all over again,

'Ghanis pleading help me! as we desert

and pull up trophy wives and ratso men

we groomed onto a getaway plane..

It was always only about the oil,

even before the freefall harmony

of 9/11, inside traitors' toil,

soldiers of misfortune, what ahrony.

The 2.3 Rumsfeld said was missing

was probably seed money for the pipeline.

We spent 20 years monster-kissing.

Why were we there? Ask LBJ next time.

F*ck it: we went there to loot, spread some phlegm.

What, were you expecting an apothegm?




Authors Website: https://tantricdispositionmatrix.substack.com/

Authors Bio:

John Kendall Hawkins is an American ex-pat freelance journalist and poet currently residing in Oceania.


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