MY ALLEGIANCE - The Abandoned Project / Canto XV

Most likely to be published sometime in latter 2017 or early 2018, my 10th book currently entitled; 100 Proems & Poems on the HUMAN ABILITY to REASON, HUMAN RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters. The following will probably be included (in the bonus section) upon further editing, and front cover below merely a working version....

CANTO XV - Ineradicable Thistles


They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety, deserve neither liberty or safety... Where liberty dwells,
there is my country.

Benjamin Franklin (entrepreneur/politician, 1706-1790)


Relentless scratches for seven year itches
Barely remedy’s matches
For violence instantly soothes the hanker
The swanker for bloody rule
The perceived comeuppance for others
While hoarding grace selfishly
Ah the chafed face from polity’s mask
The rash from soliloquy’s guise
Lies begin and end within
Moldering, abating narcissistic roots
Truths begin then endlessly batten
Burgeoning as ineradicable thistles
Yet `tween such raptures the whistles
Missiles of omnivorous coteries
Enthralling, sequestering
And preempting bards and troubadours
Logicians and entrepreneurs too
Abjuring independence for dependence
Forswearing liberty for safety
The fundamentals for eventual violence

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

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