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Profiling

Armageddon’s got nothing on me
says the country singer
voice like cured leather
under his catalog cowboy hat

Liberals suck, that’s all I’m saying
I’m for the working man and there’s
choices to be made
only we ain’t tough enough yet
to make ‘em

We need to take out the whole
Middle East says the doctor
checking his pager
Rolex and cell all at once

Except for Israel, that is

It’s common sense rasps a
housewife on the radio
I mean, facts are facts and
there weren’t any blue-eyed
blondes named Sven bombing those buildings
were there…

Anyway, all those black robes on their women
make me nervous
I mean, talk
about oppression

The whole Middle East
Repeats the doctor who sells Amway on the side
Back to the Stone Age; the whole Middle East

Except for Israel

Static, chatter…on into the night…confusion and pain…axis of evil…smoke in the city, sirens non-stop…the screams of the dead…collateral damage…no one named Sven…tough choices…round ‘em all up…a little bombing…

Armageddon’s got nothing on us

John Telos

Inspiration: A pastiche of voices I heard shortly after September ll, 2001...the sounds of my countrymen, scared, angry and confused

Poem Number: 14379

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