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Jan 2021
Heartfelt congratulations
to Raphael Warnock,
now slated to become
first Black senator of Georgia
cuz he defeated Senator
Kelly Loeffler quite a shock
as troopers fuel related headlines
Jon Ossoff also declared victory
over Republican Senator David Perdue

arrows drawn whereby
quivering feathers tautly nock
democrats experience
Pyrrhic victory worse fate than
death (courtesy madding
and mobbing crowd) knock
king prospective peaceful
Biden transition aftershock.

Protesters (Trump supporters)
storm Capitol Hill caw
zing pandemonium think
outsize dagger studded claw
dripping with innocent
blood slain victims immediately
spark warring factions
trumpeting zealotry where draw

ma (i.e. drama bordering
on traitorous and treasonous)
ruffians amass upon storied
Washington District of Columbia scuff law
hooligans inciting unrest
by tossing incendiary grenades
setting civility aflame literally
exhausting literal last negotiable straw.

Government of the United States
overtaken courtesy coup
d'Γ©tat quickly dissolving
constitutional and democratic glue
political harmonic convergence
goes out figurative window
******* kickstarts fracas,

then chaos erupts like tinder in lieu
of law and order signals
institution of martial law no control
nor precedent to manage upheaval
in recent memory review
wing history in vain, thus
may force (to survive) be with you.

Yours truly (me) dumbfounded
at chain of alarming events aye
can't breathe mortified at impending
take no prisoners battle cry
need powder milk biscuits and
good n plenti raw bits to fortify
though dead of winter, I sweat bullets
as if month of year July
forecast laden with maelstrom

amidst and across globe well nigh
fearing total mortal kombat
raining down from the ominous sky
wondering (on a star) how repulsiveness
of megalomaniacal forty
fifth president affects millions of devotees,
whereat my illustrious,
fulsome countenance begets
****** features best hashtagged as wry.

I await with bated breath for apocalypse
and what promises (last picture show)
close approximation to Armageddon
wanton destruction and death
yes once and for all annihilating

adultery, bigotry, cupidity,
debauchery, effrontery,Β frivolity...,
but additionally decimating
life, liberty and pursuit of happiness
as showdown by Republican diehards
roiling violence and sowing seeds of anarchy.
Written by
matthew scott harris  64/M/schwenksville, penna
(64/M/schwenksville, penna)   
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   jdmaraccini
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