Poem: Before The Court

 

Before The Court

 

pleas of truth

before a caterwaul of lies.

 

against the bruxism of empire

to fight and declaim.

 

to cast logic out,

amid knives of buzzy scorn.

 

to argue that armies

oppress in the name of freedom. 

 

to call out tyrants,

who salivate above a drool of dogs.

 

to lament scared citizens,

whose rush erodes the very streets.

 

to acknowledge a rubbish of vagrants,

eyes as smoky as bullet casings.

 

to remark on the loyalty of altars

irrational of sacrifice,

 

and the loud fanatic arenas,

drunk with hate-thirsty grunts.

 

to dare kindness,

and deprive cruelty with love--

 

and, for such acts, to pay,

to be accused and entombed.

 

 

 

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Sept 8  "drool of dogs" replaces "drooling dogs"

August 12 more changes... 

August 5 "dare kindness" replaces "dare advance kindness"

August 2, structural changes for better flow