Thursday, April 21, 2022

Le Pen

 RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: GLOBAL POLITICS


Le Pen

 

There is a madness invading the body politic

There is a poison infecting the heart of democracy

Erdogan of Turkey

Bolsonaro of Brazil

Trump of the USA

Le Pen of France

 

So now France has been infected

and those who can and will

remember the Vichy government

of Marshal Philippe Petain

The authoritarian nationalist

Collaborator of the Nazi’s

 

Marine Le Pen

Shall you tempt Vichy again?

We do not believe your temporal denials

You are the collaborator and

Putin is your brethren

 

You would turn back the clock

on the best of the French tradition

You would sever the heart

of French democracy

even as you sever France

from the heart of Europe

You would betray our friends

in Ukraine

 

The people will not allow this betrayal

They will send you back into the

darkness from which you came

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