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Famous Power Play Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Power Play poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous power play poems. These examples illustrate what a famous power play poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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CIA Dope Calypso

by Ginsberg, Allen

...came into Laos
I'll tell you no lie I'm a true American
Our big pusher there was Phoumi Nosovan

All them Princes in a power play
But Phoumi was the man for the CIA

And his best friend General Vang Pao
Ran the Meo army like a sacred cow
Helicopter smugglers filled Long Cheng's bars
In Xieng Quang province on the Plain of Jars

It started in secret they were fighting yesterday
Clandestine secret army of the CIA

All through the Sixties the Dope flew free
Thru Tan Son Nhut Sa...Read more of this...

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