Ill equipped for the club
Devo on game Twain said
was a good walk spoiled
No, I'm in costume
for the desert storm
Keeping quiet keeping
Top secret in camo fabric,
feeling airy fab for a fight
Warm body on the march
Velcro collar smoke-lit strategic
Needing any army surplus
can get greedy hands on
Can't make peace
without being a threat
Even if likely
get ass kicked
in military chic
stolen valor
bric-a-brac
Maybe I should just surrender
all of my personal khaki
to Zelensky, who needs it more
than some dead peasant
on a walk-the-talk
bike & hike protest romp
Locusts of dust devils
Political demonstrations
Bank towers glass & steel
Never a shudder not once
O to be a better man ... Better, man
Superior footwear tamed the globe
Central banking & breezy jackets
Real hardcore pawn full metal
Casual wear for the multitudes
O sleeping silent majorities, thy song
tumbles numbly to stillness amid almighty
canyons of commerce safely unshaken
Meanwhile, the president
cheating by the third hole
& thy mind's eyes
gone sand-trapped mute
But what is this?
A rowdy roar of thousands?
An answer to the brute?
Now forming a great salient
everyone big wind pissed
& the anthem of rebellion
must chime right time
Maybe he'll feel crowd shot
shared on X by the Ninth?
Proton particle solar afterglow
arrival early enough gets the ghost
hum drumming ... they are coming, coming!
Strangely silent beached in retreat
Drank too much Gandhi night before
Steve Earles goin' Gandhi o Gandhi
Too many fools atop hills too long
shocked woke stiff by self-inflicted
earthquake dimension twisted
Trumpigarchy intractable & Titanic,
oligarchy owned soulless groping nope
The sound of the crowd
Thousands howl ... the crowd,
sudden and awake ... Lionized!
But how long to howl? How long?
Surely White House operatives
running stats on the static throng now
Hours before liberty bell rung ... Hours!
O collective Om bending megahertz history
mystery change thumping up sandworms
Apache Mother vibe sending Geronimo home
for now ... hours before the bell rung ... Hours!
~ Douglas McDaniel
Tolleson, Arizona
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