Rev. Gerald Dillenbeck Poet Political Verse

Challenged Young Men

When is the difference between
a terrorist
and a challenged young man
not a realistic distinction?

When the young man 
grows up in an NRA culture
celebrating justified evangelical military violence;

Choices for death
by automated
ballistic
monoculturing
rabid
force.

Military cultures
teach mental illness,
social pathology
of living in a fundamentally dualistic world
that is ecologically anti-trusting
and theologically
notsecular-notsacred double-binding
LoseLose dualistic

MADenning
Mutual Assured Destruction
rather than Mutual Acclimating Restoration
WinWin pedagogy.

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