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Tuesday, January 02, 2007

SADDAMN SHAME

by Charles Frederickson


Baath tub smutty ring scoured
Tainted bad blood clogging drain
Plug yanked rubber ducky plucked
Dirty laundry bleached sun dried

Tyrannical rise to power ironically
Piggybacked diabolical CIA-engineered coup
Egregious acts heinous crimes committed
During 24-year reign of terror

Ever solicitous of Kurd gassing
Murderous rampage thousands of Shiites
Let’s pretend it never happened
Allied farces turning blind eye-for-eye

Weapons of mass destruction supplied
By arsenal of terror compatriots
Mirage jets helicopters cluster bombs
Biological germ viruses lethal chemicals

Mea maxima culpability runneth over
Wronged civil rights sham poo-pooed
American Grandstand Iraq & payroll be-bop
Do-be-do-be-due process Ivory soap opera

Fairness neither option nor criterion
Remote control trial error prone
Victim of Wild West lynching
Melodramatic villainous charade curtains drawn

Lost cause die hard incompetence
Prolonging illegitimate war without end
Quaking earth chasmal fault lines
Bitter sectarian divide vowing revenge


Dr. Charles Frederickson is a Swedish-American-Thai 4midable, 10acious, cre8ive 1derer who has wandered intrepidly through 206 countries, an original sketch and poem for each presented on http://www.imagesof.8k.com. This maverick e-gadfly is a member of World Poets Society, based in Greece, with 200+ poetry publication credits on 6 continents, such as: Ascent Aspirations, Auckland Poetry, Blind Man’s Rainbow, Both Sides Now, Caveat Lector, Cordite Poetry Review, Dance to Death, Eclipse, Flutter Magazine, Greatworks, Green Dove, Indite Circle, International Poet, Listen & Be Heard, Living Poets, Madpoetry, Melange, Newtopia, New Verse News, Planet Authority, Poetry Canada, Poetry of Scotland, PoetryStop, Poets for Peace, Poetry Superhighway, Pyramid, Sage of Consciousness, Stellar Showcase, Sz, The Smoking Poet, T-zero, Ya’Sou! Ygdrasil,and Zafusy.