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Grant This Civil Yankee To Doodle Till Lee Gets Blue In the Face

Grant this civil yankee to doodle till Lee gets blue in the face 

blowing 99 red balloons April 9th, 2023
will signal 158 years since Appomattox
plus what would have been ninety sixth birth 
of the late Boyce Brandon Harris,
whereby yours truly the biological byproduct
when secular parents of mine 
simply following the dictum
constituting be fruitful and multiply.

(Alternately titled always look 
on the bright side of life sang 
courtesy Eric Idle in Life of Brian)

Armageddon would be morbidly amazing,
concluding (reign of Homo Sapiens)
fascinating albeit simultaneously 
fantastic, catastrophic boon
dog gull to accompany
(this incognito sans, 
spacesuit attired as bugs bunny
foolish faux rabbit, yup you reddit right
with netzero outlook) 

amidst others eyed hop along
(like Cassidy) to find 
amidst rubble strewn cocoon,
or perchance an arrid extra dry
armed hammer hotmail spelling
unrelenting radioactive
blown humungous earthlinked dune
daffy duck dynasty Don 
trumpeting a brave (though

extremely foolish soul) weathering
fierce-some dust bowl 
appearing like a ghoulish goon
vis a vis via global sand man
disallowing any inhabitant to be immune
whereat winter days 
would mimic (nee far exceed)
those analogous to tropical June
day where nary species 

of flora nor fauna,
which latter muffled cry 
viz Clair De Lune
barely heard above blindingly pitched
(scoring major lunar home run) 
when earth's moon
appeared to be batted, 
snatched, and whacked -
piñata like casting 
darkness at high noon

this out of other worldly debacle
(viz: a scene of apocalyptic, 
cosmic and epic rune
from twilight zone re: 
outer limits offsetting
sole millennial Gaia satellite 
believed rigged forever) 
which end of planetary 
status quo came barreling along
sooner than expected, accompanied

by Gustav Holst The Planets 
auspicious, eponymous, illustrious... tune
once Luna rung seismically,
titanic ally uprooted, violently wrenched
prior to crash landing at ground zero
rocked and rolled out of orbitz
before careering, and screaming
thru the atmosphere
analogous a full term baby
in utero yanked out of womb.

Though the above dynamic
gigantic jack-knifed nihilistic quantum
spectacular universal wreckage
sans the inner sphere of solar system
(known to mankind, 
whose tenancy upon oblate spheroid 
viz planet Earth did upstage
when said creature, an outlier),
whence even amidst the early
bipedal hominids didst throve a sage

no event (whether natural
or caused by human error),
would compare neither captcha,
when quaking, roiling, swarming, 
teeming masses rage
against the machine
emasculated, jiggered, orchestrated 
and wrought one after another 
bloody war strewn page
onto once verdant terrestrial firmament

no way to measure nor gauge
the depth, length, scope of total
value eradicating any trace
of simian equipage
reducing arrogant, conceited,
egomaniacal, dotage
boot far-fetched 
science fiction phenomena would
witness civilization captive
in their own technological cage

more to the point yours truly 
self imprisoned barred bard, 
(whose fleshy epidermis camouflaged beige)
tricked out with latest futuristic
technological “smart” sophistication 
showcasing latest skin tight accouterment
a win for progressive 
penal reform champions, 
who feel a cannibal (accountable) 
to stamp out anthropophage.

Copyright © Matthew Harris

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