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Spinning, reeling (Free verse) by ecargo
Let's make of it an abstraction;
the bombing, death, destruction--
just a reasonable reaction.
(Exercise the rhetorical;
dismiss dissent as political)
[oilOILoilOIL
OILoilOILoil]
Let's calculate the absence
of action:
what then could have been
the distraction?
[Economy falling
public schools failing
joblessness soaring
deficits swelling
Bill of Rights gutted
resources glutted . . .
nothing to see here,
move it along:]
We've freed the unfree!
God bless my country, tis of thee,
we'll bring Big Oil to Babylon--
thus our benediction!
(Just sustain the fiction!)
(Pare it to words no longer than two syllables,
present it as a flag-wrapped, plain-talkin' parable,
drape atrocity in ambiguity
to make it all palatable
and keep them all malleable;
keep the concept altogether simple.)
We'll need a new slogan,
keep them focused on the tagline.
Don't worry about the headlines-
Fox fixed the spin;
we're all in it to win!
What lies? Nigerian follies?
Our intelligence was solid!
Tony told us so--
how were we to know?
Don't blame our Popular Wartime Prezident(TM)!
He only lied by accident!
We must admit, your doubt leaves us perplexed--
it's not as if he lied about, say, sex.
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