Apr 2015
(NaPoWriMo Challenge: April 13, 2015)
The tendency for people to want to believe that the world is fundamentally just, causing them to rationalize an otherwise inexplicable injustice as deserved by the victims.
All is fair in love and war and making excuses
for your team. But there is no such evildoings
for our guy, our statesman and quarterback
who wears red and blue, for whom no bell tolls.
Winning trumps offering and the ends justify
what we need them to justify. We rally
on consecrated field, behind the hallowed squad
of our heroic puffery. In World War II,
my young great uncle was finished
by a German ******, himself a hero
to his team. Propaganda is only something
the Other one does, those cheaters at chess
sneaking plays in dark corners. Not us;
we win justly, thanking our Gods. The losers
starving, ignored, burned alive
like the lot of the poets.
The tendency for people to want to believe that the world is fundamentally just, causing them to rationalize an otherwise inexplicable injustice as deserved by the victims.
All is fair in love and war and making excuses
for your team. But there is no such evildoings
for our guy, our statesman and quarterback
who wears red and blue, for whom no bell tolls.
Winning trumps offering and the ends justify
what we need them to justify. We rally
on consecrated field, behind the hallowed squad
of our heroic puffery. In World War II,
my young great uncle was finished
by a German ******, himself a hero
to his team. Propaganda is only something
the Other one does, those cheaters at chess
sneaking plays in dark corners. Not us;
we win justly, thanking our Gods. The losers
starving, ignored, burned alive
like the lot of the poets.
Georgian chess star Gaioz Nigalidza was caught cheating during his recent match, sneaking off the to bathroom to run a chess app from a smart phone stuck hidden in a roll of toilet paper.
