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As We Press Release<\/span><\/p>\n

The defense department denies killing civilians<\/span>
\nThe state department denies human rights abuses by trade partners<\/span>
\nThe department of energy denies that nuclear power is anything but safe<\/span>
\nThe criminal justice system denies institutional racism<\/span>
\nThe department of departments denies that it exists<\/span>
\nThere is no news here<\/span>
\nAn anonymous spokesman representing an undisclosed list of clients<\/span>
\nCould neither confirm nor deny their uselessness<\/span>
\nBeholden to flights of fancy<\/span>
\nCarry on<\/span>
\nPink elephants trampling conspiracy theorists<\/span>
\nStraw men unable to eat crow<\/span>
\nPermitting no one to fly straight<\/span>
\nBarring exceptional pork<\/span>
\nThe fun is over<\/span>
\nA barrel<\/span>
\nOf monkeys denying evolution<\/span>
\nWhere GOP is a measle-y typo<\/span>
\nRead “take things literally”<\/span>
\nA premeditated shot in the dark<\/span>
\nWhere there is no higher power<\/span>
\nEmanating from the chamber of commerce<\/span>
\nPinko pachyderms never herd from<\/span>
\nAny rarer would be bloody<\/span>
\nHell, the stakes are high<\/span>
\nRaised by vampires<\/span>
\nUnable to reflect on their own<\/span>
\nFratricide from dawn to dust<\/span>
\nSucking out the life<\/span>
\nGranting only that<\/span>
\nThey feel our payin’<\/span>
\nAttention<\/span>
\nExacting compensation for every notice<\/span>
\nDispatching captives with unmanned missives<\/span>
\nDroning on<\/span>
\nIn their priest-like duties<\/span>
\nUntil the masses are free<\/span>
\nLike a cancer<\/span>
\nAn endless growth<\/span>
\nOf pulp fiction<\/span>
\nAnd mind-numbing doublespeak<\/span>
\nAs we press release<\/span>
\nFrom labor camps<\/span>
\nYet another<\/span>
\nBirth of a nation<\/span>
\nAnd its following deportments:<\/span>
\nREDACTED<\/span>
\nCensors monitoring your every move<\/span>
\nSo your posterity is theirs<\/span>
\nAnd the war on terror<\/span>
\nOnly coming to an end<\/span>
\nWhen know more<\/span>
\nFreedom to deny<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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