Hands of America
Hands of America
Hand-over-hand: arduous climb
up the ladder of success.
Hand made: goods from a foreign land,
homeland in economic distress.
Hand-in-hand: dire collusion
with despots of detention
by the leaders of the state
that forged liberty's invention.
Underhanded: the undermining
of the only black president;
white hands applying black face,
inciting hatred and malcontent.
Handgun: a clutched firearm
with trigger pull light as breath;
handles on the side of a casket,
results of a violent shooting death.
Handover: a secret tactic
of those whose secret mission
results in the torture of those
sent abroad for extreme rendition.
Handiwork: the bloody results
of falsehoods of those who swore
that our homeland was in danger,
that we must send our best into war.
Handhold: a grip on reality
by people needing a hand.
Hands off: the response of
those who seek to rule this land.
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