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End of the Arms Race

Archie A. Agag, the American Idol Kaiser Be hiding in an underground concrete bunker Closed-eyed hate peeper sleepy late-riser Dreaming of a bottom end H-bomb dumpster Enter the REM meltdown maelstrom at every kiosk money mall F-18's flying overhead the puny ant farm military parade General Moronika making the Armageddon mushroom last call Hells bells raining warning chimes on a pre-empt air raid Idiocy is the devalued political currency ... a burn paper destiny Jumbled lunacy is getting no checks-and-balance power scrutiny Kaboom! Ain’t no more children in the classrooms Love Apprentice Style for the siren sound of the war drums Mutated babies delivered in M.A.S.H triage tombs Nuclear jacks wanna be Scar boss king of the jungle beanstalk Opioid delusions is giving ‘em rash hash hallucinations in bulk Point the deadly sniper scope at the fleeing downtrodden refugees Que the funeral violins upon the released vials of chemical disease Recommendations coming from all butt-licking tongues on knees Sanity trailblazers are on a sabbatical vacation from the con cartoons Temple of Doom rescue ... Indiana Jones Hans Solo ain’t coming soon Uncle Sam sez that permanent peace can only come thru war Visions of propaganda lust being televised on a nonstop snore Witness the apocalypse now being sold as coming-to-you later X marks the spot where the patients zero fled from the crater Yellowstone sulfuric lies be bubbling up to an AAA barren surface Zuni sunrise setting on glow-in-the-dark places ablaze purchased

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Date: 5/4/2018 11:51:00 AM
This poem IS 'the living end,' my friend. (Of course, what's the alternative?!) Blessings, Good Cheer, and Survival! :) gw
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