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There Was a Crooked Man

There is a crooked man Who has a crooked mind Which renders his decisions Malignant and maligned: The Paris Peace Accord The Pandemic Office crowd Both among the things This man has disallowed. Bodies in the morgues Were cordwood stacking high The count of them increased And still, he did deny: Vaccines and materials Could cause the plague’s defeat But his plan was to delay Which made his plan replete Those who once supported him And gave an accolade Are finding now within their grief They all have been betrayed The Bell of our Democracy Which at one time rang so true Begins to show a crack in it As we allow this man to do … All the things against our Creed Against our very core It’s time for us to stand and say: Support this man … NO MORE!

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Date: 11/15/2022 7:26:00 AM
Oh, Jack, It would seem you have tarred them all with the same brush and left us all to decide WHO is to blame.
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Jack Clark
Date: 11/16/2022 2:34:00 PM
There is but one who instigated all those miseries, but … the ones who condoned, allowed and remained silent are implicate-able as well. If this individual is allowed to repeat his pseudo-dominance those things he instigated will surely repeat, or be made worse. He is like the “Good Nurse”, in that if he’s allowed to continue, will just regenerate his malignancies over an extended period.

Book: Shattered Sighs