Beaglepuss

Duck Soup

Studies show wearing a pair makes one less

likely to rocket

their own people in

their beds walk into

a café at noon

wearing a vest of

explosives and ball

bearings cut wages

to increase share price

wipe whole villages

off the map spark a

preemptive war take

away citizens

right to vote preserve

tax breaks for wealthy

people use rape as

a weapon of war

govern from holy

books deny science

persecute people

for who they invite

into their beds kill

the parents and turn

the children into

soldiers make oceans

of money on both

the upside and the

downside while the rest

of us cover their

bets shield coaches and

priests to protect the

institution turn

warfare into a

droning video

game muzzle nuns keep

girls from going to

school mask racism

behind a veil of

Constitutional

rhetoric embrace

corporations as

people claim God as

their free pass to grind

others into dust

methodically and

cynically starve the

public schools and what’s

left of the social

safety net purely

for political

gain burn carbon like

there’s no tomorrow

conflate guns God and

fear of the Other

kill over fine points

of dogma invite

corporations to

shit in their bed and

stick them with all the

dirty laundry preach

hate demonize the

Common Weal squeeze the

poor middle class boast 
of their absolute 
certainty elect
surrogates for big
corporations slap 
crooked bankers on
the wrist, a nice pair

of Groucho glasses, one for every man

women and child on this crazy planet.