Oh my Nancy Oh Pelosi
\ngive us back our habeas
\ncorpus. The Patriot Act
\nis unAmerican give us back
\nour shining light…
\nand they call it ’84…come a’Boar’d
\n2001 – was it not a Spaced Odd’essy?
\nWhen we let go of the pain
\nothers have caused us
\nwe can stop fearing to look
\nat the pain we caused others
\nEli Bear says the bottom “level”
\nis the fear of dying, to which
\nOh my Darling Clementine asks,
\nHow do you explain
\na suicide bomber’s
\nlack of fear of dying?<\/p>\n
We are all Americans when it comes to
\npeace and war and democratic republics.
\nWill we be the shining Lighthouse on the hill,
\ngiving hope to the oppressed or will we fall?<\/p>\n
The whole world is watching…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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