Freddie Robinson Jr. Poet Acrostic

Snafu

S ituation
N ormal
A ll
F ouled
U p

Everyone in the chain of command
is passing the buck
From the president on down,
they’re covering their butt
Pentagon pencil-heads are working the phones,
trying to get a handle on the toilet situation ...
barking orders in their normal gruff intonation
All hands on decks for political damage control;
but somebody fouled off the pitch,
and let the media catch wind of the stumble
News travel fast ... so sultan swatting spherical,
public got those antennae ear gloves up 
on their private carrier satellite dish cable

Up the brass chain of command,
they say everything is copacetic cool
Fouled communication compromised
has been breach settled old school
All the fallen dominos state secrets
are safely in code encrypted contain
Normal operations got the green light go,
covert missions stay exactly the same
Situation Room decisions got a bit stressed,
piles of confusion was such a steamy hot mess

B    ut now, black-ops 
c    an again be the top-secret cops
In   the present,
you
	     just have to trust that 
later
	     screw-ups,
maybe 
	     won’t be whiskey fatal   ...   no nuclear overturned short cups

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Jan Allison March 16, 2018 at 12:44 PM Bravo Freddie you dont mince your words!:-) hugs Jan xx

CayCay Godwin March 15, 2018 at 4:24 PM The sixties would not have survived today's media, neither would Kennedy have done so, in my opinion. We never get the truth, even when it works it is muddied. I enjoyed this scrambling, butt saving story that reflects a ludicrous truth which, to me, is more about journalism than government (ok, both) because taken down a peg, they are the same idiots who ask things like, 'your son just died, how do you feel?' Poetry hugs ... CayCay