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Day of The Dead: Another New World Nursery Rhyme from Papa Possum. (For Election Day 2014)

Posted by Eudaimonia 9 years, 6 months ago to Politics
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For Election Day 2014

A new work from Papa Possum.

Enjoy, or not.

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Day of The Dead
(Requiescant In Pace)

All Hallows' Eve did come and leave,
November's finally here,
with children's smiles and candy piles
to add to harvest cheer.
Their parents beam but 'neath that gleam
there lurks a sense of dread,
for soon, they know, those laid below
rise for Day of The Dead

In Mexico, families go
to visit loved ones passed,
to pay respect, pause and reflect
that no one's life will last,
while in The North, we sally forth
to polling place remote,
while marxists red co-opt our dead
to cancel out our Vote.

That Soldier Brave his own Life gave
for Liberty and Vow,
that Grandma missed, that lost Love kissed
might vote democrat now.
That Sister, Frère, that Mother, Père,
that Hero in your eyes,
Family, Friends: just means to ends
to hijack the Franchise.

For we who see this perfidy
no mask the marxists don
will full erase true fascist face:
no mask will slip back on.
The Franchise wrecked, the disrespect;
it's long past time we said,
“Shout to the stars, 'These Dead are Ours!',
take back Day of The Dead!”


Day of The Dead, Copyright © 2014 Papa Possum

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Hear the audio stream here: http://papapossum.blogspot.com/2014/11/d...


All Comments

  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 6 months ago
    very fine -- reminds me of the old joke::: "How do we
    know that Elvis is dead? . He's registered to vote
    in Chicago." -- j

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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 6 months ago
    The very best. As possums go, you rank right up there with Pogo. (High praise, believe me).

    Poppa Possum has brought this to mind,
    A voter of another kind,
    One who with the left is closely wed,
    The voter who is already dead.
    Boom away on the big bass drum,
    Where are the voters coming from?
    Children, don't worry or waste your breath,
    They come from the eerie realms of death.
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  • Posted by 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I specifically wrote "marxist red" because if I wrote "party red" people would have thought I meant republicans.

    Thanks, Flootus
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  • Posted by Flootus5 9 years, 6 months ago
    "While marxists red co-opt our dead" Chilling after having just read the red state blue state posts.

    "Interesting" times.
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  • Posted by $ puzzlelady 9 years, 6 months ago
    +10 for literary brilliance, logic, principle, passion, grandeur of vision, dramatic power, persuasion, wittiness, timeliness, and humanism. Thank you for this treat.
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  • Posted by 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    allosaur, exactly.

    I like coming at an issue sideways.
    I'm glad the point was clewar.

    Thanks, allosaur.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 6 months ago
    That part about soiling a dead Soldier Brave's memory with a dishonest demo vote makes me want to throw a thrashing dino temper tantrum. I never quite thought about that in such a way before. Hark! Methinks I'm now all the more enlightened.
    And now I hate that conniving race card con about voter ID's all the more. In Alabama I'm proud to show my driver's license to the old ladies who are always there to check off my name as a voter..
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  • Posted by $ jlc 9 years, 6 months ago
    Yes, it is frightening to think of my parents ghosts co-opted to vote against me. Brrr!

    Thank you for that poem. I think...

    Jan
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  • Posted by $ winterwind 9 years, 6 months ago
    I love [family] just means to ends to hijack the Franchise. Let's raise an empty glass to those member of our family and friends who work against us.
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  • Posted by khalling 9 years, 6 months ago
    chilling! goosebumps! affirming! lots of stirring the pot, as only you can do this way! excellent.
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