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Rat-A-Tat-Tat

The typewriters tap, with a rat-a-tat-tat, like a fourth estate rap to provide us the pap (that serves as a snack with a rat-a-tat-tat) in a newspaper scrap crammed with meaningless crap from the editor's yap (spewing flimflamy flak, booming rat-a-tat-tat) after gashing a gap in the daily recap with a snip in a snap- sounding thundery clap crackng rat-a-tat-tat and a rat-a-tat-tat. And the talking heads speak with a rat-a-tat-tat, of the news of the week, tweaking tongue in the cheek (with a click and a clack like a rat-a-tat-tat), thus ignoring critique 'cause they're mild and too meek in the midst of the reek to report of the wrack (except rat-a-tat-tat) whilst the pundits (oblique when protecting the chic of the upper class clique at the top of the peak) chatter rat-a-tat-tat and a rat-a-tat-tat. The NRA ghouls plug a rat-a-tat-tat while their blood money tools fill the Hill’s vestibules (where deceit behind drapes drips a rat-a-tat-tat), spreading folly that fuels frenzied hands of young fools bringing guns into schools (at the drop of a hat there's a rat-a-tat-tat splashing blood in warm pools) for now anarchy rules (which the hype ridicules 'til the temperature cools) hailing rat-a-tat-tat and a rat-a-tat-tat. Lawless cops, cutting loose with a rat-a-tat-tat spraying bullets profuse without any excuse (just a split second splat with a rat-a-tat-tat), splay a rattled recluse like a Thanksgiving goose gushing cranberry juice from six slugs in the back (with a rat-a-tat-tat). To redress such abuse, bend the branch of a spruce with a neck in a noose while Death's drums beat diffuse’ rolling rat-a-tat-tat and a rat-a-tat-tat. War brings freedom to all with a rat-a-tat-tat (well, excluding the thrall with fear, facing the wall [ often smacked with a bat, throbbing rat-a-tat-tat ], until feeling the call to creep out of the kraal biting back with a gall [ with a tit for a tat and a rat-a-tat-tat ], or to mangle and maul if still able to crawl and be part of the brawl in a freak free-for-all, midst a rat-a-tat-tat and a rat-a-tat-tat). Holy warmongers praise, with a rat-a-tat-tat, any soldier that slays and all rockets that raze (the drones zoom with a vroom and a rat-a-tat-tat) leaving smoky arrays of gray ghosts in the haze cloaking mute cabarets (hushed, the hip and the hop, by the rat-a-tat-tat) while ol’ Cerberus bays with mankind in his gaze, so society prays as it rots and decays (Satan's trumpets of doom blare a rat-a-tat-tat) until one of these days in a flash through the maze mighty mushrooms will blaze with invisible rays, fin’lly braising the craze of the rat-a-tat-tat, and the rat- a- tat- tat.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016




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Date: 6/10/2016 9:09:00 PM
wow, what great use of rhyme to hit us over the head with that intense message!! rat a tat tat indeed. GREAT writing, Terry. You have the magic touch!!
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Date: 5/6/2016 7:58:00 AM
Now I remember how easy to read your long ones. Yours are the only ones that can keep this foggy head engaged. This is such a pleasure to behold. Okay yea to read too. Any books yet? Love, Kathy
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Date: 3/14/2016 2:21:00 PM
Well Done Terry! I tip my hat to your Rat-A-Tat-Tat
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