
"Oh, look! We made a mistake and cut Ebola funding.
But nothing to worry about: we replaced it right away."
Two problems with that. First, it's Ebola, you blockhead.
Second, you haven't replaced any of the funding
or any of the people who struggle to save lives.
With a single verbal brushstroke you paint your putrid face:
You're an ignornant, callous, lying, juvenile, cold-blooded vandal
with no concern for the world's most vulnerable men and women
and children, the aged and dying, the poorest of the poor,
no wish to do a damn thing for the least of these our brethren,
no interest except to destroy every stumbling block
to your ungoverned, wild-eyed selfishness and transgressive megalomania.
Having exalted the second corruptest extant homunculus
and set him behind the desk of the world's most powerful office,
you mock through him the notion that reason can prevent you
or any "free" billionaire from rampaging over the earth,
pillaging, looting, raping, and crushing us with your "freedom."
Memo to morons and cretins: This is what government does—
it governs rapacious tyrants and refractory, brutish Titans
who never mastered themselves, slaves to their lusts and desires,
who believe that it's easy to snatch anything they want,
who believe that there are no obstructions checking their will to power.
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But the tyrant always topples, as Xerxes learned too late,
either before or after he incinerates all his pillage.
All ambitions are easy for him who writes off reality—
or seem that way until reality overwrites him.
About the Creator
William Alfred
A retired college teacher who has turned to poetry in his old age.


Comments (1)
Facts and a sad truth. Almost unbelievable that we really are going through this.