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Tears of the Founders

We’ve abused our great freedoms to reap the results with school and church shootings hate speech a new cult No respect for the flag or sacrifice made ignoring our veterans despoiling their graves Our streets wait in ambush where the enemy hides to prowl in a wasteland where evil decides The constitution a weapon to pervert and inflict traitorous courts with laws nondescript And blindly we run (toward the cliff) greed our marching song narcissism the battle cry —America is gone (Ardmore Pennsylvania: April, 2023)

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Date: 4/11/2023 10:01:00 AM
You sure nailed this one, Kurt.
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Kurt Philip Behm
Date: 4/11/2023 10:10:00 AM
Thanks, I wrote it with a heavy heart.

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