storm warnings

Film at eleven. Redacted.

Copyright Gordon Schenck

storm warnings 2022.02.24

pedophiles protected by evangelicals
children shot down by fanaticals
authoritarians goading tyrannicals
and now for an update on the tropicals

storm warnings
cut to the weather
happy shit news
yank on the tether

get them in line
it's a wonderful time
in christofascist america

make america embrace human chattel 
turn the women into cattle
pro life was the battle
to yoke the prattle

of the liberal
it was so simple
like popping a pimple
just apply pressure

storm warnings
barometric measure
clouds moving from the east
to inhibit our pleasure

but at least the whites
are regaining their rights
that they've never lost
never mind the cost

babies for baubles
and minor squabbles
about the color of skin
or the land you live in

storm warnings at ten
look over here
the cycle begins again
let us tell you what you should fear

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John Prine - Storm Windows