coffee with cream

Reading the news you realize the war never ended

like World War II is World War I on a grander scale

and World War I was unfinished business of Napoleon

and the Crimean War was just taking a half-time break

while Russia aired ads about being cheated on the sale of Alaska

and play will resume after Kublai Khan tries to invade Japan, again

and Snoop Dog is shilling music on the 21st century Chitlin’ Circuit

tap dancing with Bojangles while Eminem impersonates Al Jolson

and they call it half-time entertainment

and the Dakotas are a tax haven to fund the resurrection of Custer

and China is just now getting into colonizing Africa

and the War of Democratic Aggression is somehow still a Northern thing

and conflicted privileged white men had their man servant

add so much cream to their cup of MLK coffee

that it is hard to tell he was once black and bitter on the tongue

and reading the news you wish the war would end

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