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A Single Day of Peace

While the world awaits a single day of peace The tyrant delivers only turmoil and scorn, Seeking wealth and pleasure’s release While causing our better angels to mourn Self-serving and arrogant, bathing in lies While the world awaits a single day of peace, He rants about what a vote for him buys We know he is a rabid wolf wearing fleece. Wondering why his blathering doesn’t cease His lack of concern for anything but his pelf, [While the world awaits a single day of peace] Should be enough alone to put him on a shelf, Still, in delusion, he clamors for more attention Reveling in the news cycles, never a surcease, When many of us think he belongs in detention, While the world awaits a single day of peace. Written November 11, 2022

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Caren Krutsinger

Date: 11/13/2022 12:19:00 AM

“Self serving and arrogant”. -so many of them unfortunately.

L Milton Hankins
Date: 11/13/2022 8:16:00 AM

'Tis true, and therein lies one of the world's great problems.

Gershon Wolf

Date: 11/12/2022 7:29:00 PM

Talking about Xi, Kim, Putin, the Mullahs, Erdogan, Assad, Abbas, or Lukashenko, I presume... Well, I agree. All the above are despicable tyrants, murdering hundreds and thousands of their own citizens, not to mention those of other countries. Thank G-d there's nobody like this here in the USA! :) gw

L Milton Hankins
Date: 11/12/2022 8:31:00 PM

Oh, really, gw? I think here is someone very much like I described here in the USA!

Elizabeth Mccann

Date: 11/11/2022 4:54:00 PM

I'm so grateful for your voice in the fight against deception and trickery. Hopefully he is now getting caught in his own net of treachery. Please keep high the banner! Elizabeth

L Milton Hankins
Date: 11/11/2022 7:42:00 PM

I truly believe it is up to all of us who see what is going on to point out the truth and to stand up for what is right and good for our country.

Nancy Kaufman

Date: 11/11/2022 4:51:00 PM

I guess he's at the bottom of the human evolution chain. I hope he is reincarnated as a person of color..

L Milton Hankins
Date: 11/11/2022 7:43:00 PM

Oh my, Nancy! I don't know what to say to this comment, except that I do find it very offensive for its implications. I wish that you might consider it and delete it because I don't feel comfortable deleting another person's comments or opinions.