Pagoda Preen
His talk is so inscrutable,
as he preens before the press
in a pagoda pique
Notice the sneer beneath the smile,
taste the bitter words candy coated sweet
Kim Jong
is so nuclear wrong, he says
Only a pre-emptive first strike
will make this Asian problem turn out right
But, shouldn’t diplomacy first be given a try,
to avoid millions of innocents who would die?
Not so, not so ...
my annihilatical words need to be a darker shade of mean,
tweets he with the pagoda preen
What’s the point in having nuclear weapons,
if you can’t make the red button turn green
But, shouldn’t tete-a-tete be the first try,
so our children won’t hear radioactive screams
of another Hiroshima mushroom cry?
It shall be something never seen before, he says
A whole country obliterated,
nuclear graveyard ... Korean peninsula of the dead
But, shouldn’t diplomacy be the first try,
so our conscience won’t hear radioactive screams
of another Nagasaki mushroom cry?
Copyright © Freddie Robinson Jr. | Year Posted 2017
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