The Killing Room by Dennis Allen Lange

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Herr Hitler led the Nazis
…To kill six million Jews.
Ukraine was starved by Stalin;
…The Times left out that news. 

And Mao? Forty million.
…And Leopold just ten.
And Tojo’s tiny numbers
…Of five are really thin. 

Gas chambers and the Gulag,
…The farms raped of their yields,
Were killing rooms for devils
…Like Pol Pot’s killing fields. 

More than did all the monsters
…Kill in their bloody quests
Have we in America
…Killed while still in their nests. 

Our count? Now sixty million.
…And what’s our killing room?
We kill them in their nurs’ry:
…We kill them in the womb.

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© Dennis Allen Lange and thebardonthehill.wordpress.com, 2018.

 

 

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Don’t Tread Or Burn – haiku by Dennis Allen Lange

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Love freedom?
Love America.
Love its flag.

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photo by Billy Frank Alexander at
http://www.rgbstock.com/photo/meMFjkc/America+3

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* The haiku I write are lines of 3-5-3 syllables instead of 5-7-5.

See Haiku article here for explanation, if needed: https://thebardonthehill.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/haiku/

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© Dennis Allen Lange and thebardonthehill.wordpress.com, 2017.
 

 

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America by James M. Whitfield

America, it is to thee,
Thou boasted land of liberty, –
It is to thee I raise my song,
Thou land of blood, and crime, and wrong.
It is to thee, my native land,
From which has issued many a hand
To tear the black man from his soil,
And force him here to delve and toil;
Chained on your blood-bemoistened sod,
Cringing beneath a tyrant’s rod,
Stripped of those rights which Nature’s God
Bequeathed to all the human race,
Bound to a petty tyrant’s nod,
Because he wears a paler face.

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