The exceptional
and indispensable you-know-who
is a military and financial powerhouse
but a moral dead letter
It has the bomb
and it has the dollar
but the word and truth
and poetry have escaped it
The days are gone
when someone could write
A “God Bless America”
and sing it with a straight face
And have left us
with talking points
stale and recycled propaganda
and planted “news” stories.
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