Flesh and Time
War elephants and jackasses
with their endless stomping and braying
from Saigon to Afghanistan.
Siamese scripts depicting
blood for oil
death for profit
blood for lithium
death for "prophet".
From tricky dicky's Saigon saga
to
Hidin' Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal debacle
to
Obama's sacrificial lamb ambassador in Benghazi
to
Mr. Peanut's 444 days of terror in Tehran
(It's all been a horrible waste of time and flesh).
Nothing gained
from a half-century of war
the grunts and the poor always pay
when terror regains the reins.
You cannot ever scrub clean the stains of a bad regime.
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