Kenneth Cheney Poet Free verse

Bullies, Dictators, and Potentates

By what perverse mental capacity
Does the bully gain satisfaction
In administering agony upon another

By what human deficiency 
Does the dictator righteously believe
Their dictates should circumscribe a citizenry

By what delusional misconception
Does a people follow in obedience
A potentate’s decrees of servitude to state

By what level of constitutional dismantling
Does “We the People” have to be unglued
Before our comrades vote to remove potentates, dictators, and bullies

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Gershon Wolf May 25, 2020 at 8:43 PM The abused returns to the abuser -- Stockholm Syndrome, I think they call it. And so it is with us ... Just look at the Soviet Union. Its citizens carp about freedom and vote for Putin. Go figure. :) gw