Wednesday, July 06, 2022

Socialist Sonnet No. 73

Against the Grain

 

Ships with empty holds, silos stuffed with grain,

Millions of famished bellies needing bread,

Loaves can divide the living from the dead;

Simple equation, no need to explain.

Only, no ship may approach the Ukraine

While Russia continues to be misled,

Reason's become a refugee that’s fled

And war kills more than soldiers once again.

Canting leaders of the Atlantic pact,

Striking moral postures without a blush,

Condemn Moscow for acting as they act

Whenever they decide it’s time to crush

Some vassal state deserving to be sacked.

Sovereignty’s then silenced by deathly hush!

 

D. A.

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