Political Killing Poems

Bathing with Bathsheba

By Mark D. Stucky
As you bathed bare below the high palace
were you intentionally seductive?
The citadel was in plain view,
and so apparently were you.

Or...

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To hunt with a full stomach
To bite into the neck of the smaller
Without hunger
Fangs clamped to the back of her neck

Her face
Devoured crumpled paper
Spit up
Re-smoothed...

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The Killing of Floyd

 So, the policeman who Killed Floyd by pressing his
knee on his neck, the sentence was murder, but was it?
The police officer...

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KILLING OLD PEOPLE

The Government is dipping
into Social Security now.
That's the reason why
the New York Governor Cuomo
put virus victims in old folk's homes
instead of putting them...

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Stop Killing My Country

Accused of political banter, 
to speak the words, God Bless, 
and America in the same sentence. 
Bespeaking the fear, 
of being proud,...

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Patrick Deneen follows Tocqueville
speaking of risks to Western liberal democratic experiments,
great personal enlightenment adventures
seldom calm within a federating kettle
of competing selected fish,
and usually not cooperatively...

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Has your grandma told you how 
she queued to collect a cup of rice
at the campaign ground?
Has your father narrated to you how he was...

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What you don't like my god,  rat a tat tat .
You want to rule yourself, rat a tat tat .
You don't believe in monarchy,...

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I am human

Most developed of
all life forms

But alas

Still flesh and
blood

As far as humans go

I'm even more
intelligent than
most

More loving than
most

But this system I
cannot transcend

This system is...

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Killing in Allah’s Name…

…

Pieces of burnt flesh,

splattered,
in a school,
a market-place,
a temple,
a synagogue,
a mosque,
a church,

a man,
a woman,
a child,

charred hands, smouldering corpses, fractured bodies,
torn limbs,
dismembered human beings,

just...

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So much is happening. 
Time is flying like the speed of lightning. 
We know where it will end and still we just go on and...

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Russian spy A. Litvinenko 
Had no heart, for a status quo;
But, when he revealed his odium, 
He earned the deadly polonium....

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