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Bullies, Dictators, and Potentates

By what perverse mental capacity
Does the bully gain satisfaction
In administering agony upon another

By what human deficiency 
Does the dictator righteously believe
Their dictates should circumscribe a citizenry

By what delusional misconception
Does a people follow in obedience
A potentate’s decrees of servitude to state

By what level of constitutional dismantling
Does “We the People” have to be unglued
Before our comrades vote to remove potentates, dictators, and bullies

Copyright © Kenneth Cheney




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