RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: GLOBAL POLITICS (UKRAINE)
The Lies of War
He told you the war would be won in seven days
He lied
He told you the Ukrainian people loved
their mother Russia
He lied
He told you the invading army would be
welcomed with open arms and celebrations
the liberators at the gates
He lied
He told you the Ukrainian nationalists were
fascist Nazi’s and white supremacists
eager to provoke war
He lied
He packed a stadium with a hundred thousand
stone-faced citizens to tell them the war
was going well
He lied
At every turn ins this sordid affair
he has filled the squalid air
with the venomous lies of war
lies the people believe no more
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