This Is How


                This is How
(the Dastardly Deed Went Down)



Brown shirts, black boots
Shaved conscience, paramilitary spooks

Marching turncoat lockstep to the Bennie Arn band,
following the Herr Leader’s double-agent command

Bearing arms for the Oval Overthrow Cause,
strangling free speech with Second Amendment clause

Rabble rousers on the mamba move at the rallying point;
a Cottonmouth King, they’re ready to seditiously anoint

This is how
dumbfounded Democracy got 
buried in the ground

This is how
closed eyes saw the fascist shot
Deafen by the sound

This is how
the Dastardly Deed went down

Robo-calls for a ban on the mail-in vote,
defacto declare prez election was a hoax

Populist rebels said power got ballot stolen by the dark skins,
neo-Prussian heads blitzkrieg slid down duchy Alps Austrian

Make common the use of violent protest,
let the gunpowder lungs spark a lip resist

Alabaster grassroots cast asunder long-revered Liberties;
Con-federate voices, the militia masses do Führer appease 

This is how
a confounded Democracy besieged got 
buried under the ground

This is how
waxed ears heard the candle snuff shot
Deafen by the dark sound

This is treacherously how
the Dastardly Deed went down


10-13-21

Copyright © | Year Posted 2021



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Date: 10/13/2021 11:55:00 AM
Now that was dark and kind of frightening my friend. But very well written.
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