Was today the day Joe Biden (D) fell?
Or does the date matter?
For we knew it already,
trying to look away,
from this nothingness, this nil.
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We’ve been trying to look away,
and today I was off-net.
So was today that most forgettable day,
of resignation, or details of referral,
by the text of the 25th?
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Worse than Carter, Buchanan, Harding…
well, it’s good to think of them.
Better than…well, c’mon man!
You ain’t no poetry person if you can’t fill it in.
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He speaks, he speaks, and we do squirm.
No need to listen to that!
“Actually, I feel sorry for him.”
“Elder abuse!” and such.
But consider those who you blame.
Are you speaking to anyone, really?
Richard the III
was an evil, evil man, but did we need five acts to see?
All that yelling, anguish, and not one that one admires.
But ours were ones willing to steal an election,
or at least to try.
So what censure is worth voicing towards them
who lie and lie and lie and lie and lie and
deny and deny and deny?
Tiresome words--
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--just those two could fill up the rest.
Why bother dates, names, fact-checks,
Obama-Warren-Clinton-Weinstein-Cuomo-Zucker-Etc-Etc dreck?
A play about Joe Biden (D) and co. (with TRUMP! as a foil)?
Rather than one on Richard and all his? Nah.
The murdering hunchback, as it proved, could fight in battle well.
And all by himself,
could wipe away his turds.
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Is that Joe Biden’s foot?
And just where is his (D) hand?
Was there anything in those words, this time,
we’d need to understand?
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“Teach me, Queen Margaret, teach me how to curse!”
Many, many thousands pray in Kabul…
And we’ll be obliged to read their lines, those preserved,
the curses on our kin and kind, yes, upon us all.
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“Repentance in the Life of Nations”
--those are not scare quotes,
but noble words seem not to hit anymore,
do not seem real, so put them around “us.”
For without, without, well,
“You know the thing,”
a people will perish.
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Long-lined Afghan curser,
we dare not admit that we want you to spare us,
the too-intimate views, of submission, your despair,
bloodshed, screams, and all the sincere (we-think) things our agents said,
now ringing so bitter in your soul’s ear.
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We know and accept our duty to read,
but please, however Margaret advises,
keep out, for the most, that nothing-man of us,
named in our prayer-books—yes, we have some!—
as our President, Joseph Biden, (D).
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Say that love is love, sang Jeremy Earl.
Were we too sure, of the sun?
How could it all fall in one day?
Pecknold’s pearls.
How they loved, winter of their 2016,
to spin haughty gloom
out of the win of that other one!
And what from their words?
What from their fears?
“ACAB!,” gun-sales, “community guidelines,”
trashed statues, and pretended quotations
from St. Augustine, from Harry oh no he’s going to say it—
“The Buck Stops Here!”
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Or if we must mention some “Keepers,” etc., who rule,
--for poets are no legislators today--
did not Mr. Zucker feel, whenever it was
that Joe Biden (D) fell, a fool?
How many miles of merde, long trenches,
did a man like he swim,
script after script worked up smart,
drama-drama-drama
“just words!”
and as it turned out, all for
him?
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“Shame, shame, nothing but shame!”
Is that a veteran I hear?
“Is that even a thing?”
Or is shame a case of
“They wanna put y’all back in chains!”
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Certainly we are embarrassed, and quite,
but should--what a word, “should!”--
we feel or half-try-to, any “sorry-ness” for Joe Biden (D)?
The man lived as hack, as cliché,
even plagiarized those.
An abuser, slanderer, barrator, thief.
Lifetime of bile, pig-head denial, and he got
just what he wanted! Commander, man.
In chief!
When we look away, is it because we feel sorry?
Or is every second of his self-humiliation above the Presidential Seal,
entirely deserved?
God’s justice, His vengeance,
mind turned to mush by a soul’s own abuse,
vacant eyes, mumbling on, captured by the best equipment,
laid bare before millions,
emblem of debility, decadence, sin.
Joe Biden (D’s), but also, ours.
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And we laughed, just a bit, and quickly turned away!
(What Adults Focus On is the Psaki-Psaki-say.)
Not so long ago, it was he, laughing at us full,
amazed and giddy, at all he had pulled,
back to his Delaware Senate-race, ’72:
“Was ever woman in this humour woo’d?!”
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Why, oh God, did you allow Joe Biden (D’s) wages
to inflict death-torture-slavery, on the Afghan friends,
and myriad wrongs, upon so many others
yet to cry out, whose bitter lines,
we’ll be obliged to take up?
Perhaps we should search out the Psalms,
Job and Siloam, yearning
for a Nehemiah, an Abigail, some new kind
of John Winthrop.
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Alas, alas, not likely to be.
Jeremiah instead, is the man of the hour.
And the days to come
will belong to the sad,
like Plutarch,
and those they think mad,
like Paul.
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Anyhow,
I forgot, lost sight, meant to ask you:
was today the day Joe Biden (D) fell?
Comment below if you know,
but please, spare me the details,
of them do not tell.
Details? Biden is all about the details... except when they're the details he isn't interested in:
"Avoiding Mr. Biden’s ire during one of his decision-making seminars means not only going beyond the vague talking points that he will reject, but also steering clear of responses laced with acronyms or too much policy minutiae, which will prompt an outburst of frustration, often laced with profanity."
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/14/us/politics/joe-biden-policy-decisions.html
The context of Biden's Afghan disgrace is the lesser, but still-severe, disgrace of our military command and intelligence agencies. They don't look obviously ridiculous the way Joe does day in and out--unless we might say that Karma or God is having their incompetence and corruption symbolically embodied in his person--, and they are not quite as directly responsible, but Glenn Reynolds summarizes it nicely with this Instapundit post https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/ :
I THINK THE EXCUSES ARE BEGINNING TO TAKE SHAPE:
“Biden is a stubborn guy,” one former Obama-administration foreign-policy official told me, speaking on condition of anonymity to talk more freely. “Sometimes he does not want to hear what he knows he doesn’t like … If the problem here was mostly not hearing what he didn’t want to hear and telling everyone to shut up and go away when they told him things he didn’t want to hear, that’s not the intelligence community’s fault.”
Sorry, won’t fly. Nobody resigned in protest. Nobody even leaked that Biden was ignoring advice. And the “Intelligence Community” didn’t predict the rapid collapse of the Afghan government. Can’t pin it all on the dotard in the White House — who the “Intelligence Community” worked hard, and illicitly, to put there anyway. You guys own this disaster, all the way down.