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War is a failure of humanity at so many levels. Certainly, mass violence favors authoritarians and constricts and degrades all things progressive in the body politic.<\/p>\n

The Biggest Flail Ever<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

With ravenous waist
\nWarmongers
\nGut it out
\nA triumph of right supremacy
\nWhatever
\nMay go wrong
\nThe war machine is billed
\nThe biggest flail ever
\nTheir arms
\nBequeathing buckets of fingers
\nAnd severed dreams
\nTheir hollowed canons
\nSecuring a moral bankruptcy
\nAnd leaving spent
\nShells
\nOf human beings
\nSwearing
\nOn your mama\u2019s grave
\nA raze for every won<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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