Poem: Before The Court

 

Before The Court

 

the poetry of truth

meets a clench of lies,

 

against the bruxism of empire

to fight and declaim.

 

to cast a logic of wings

among knives of buzzy scorn.

 

to argue that the empire 

oppresses in the name of freedom. 

 

to call out the 'great president,'

who salivates above a drool of sycophantic dogs.

 

to lament the fear of the citizens,

whose rush to obey erodes the very streets.

 

to see vagrants left as rubbish,  

eyes as smoky as bullet casings.

 

to remark on the sacrifies 

irrational on a tilt of sinking altars,

and the fanatic arenas,

drunk on hate-thirsty grunts.

 

to dare kindness and love 

deprived by the cruel--

 

and for such hope 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