{"id":8062,"date":"2015-01-30T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/?p=8062"},"modified":"2015-02-06T09:14:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T14:14:12","slug":"drone-man-executed-and-pandoras-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/drone-man-executed-and-pandoras-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone Man, Executed\u2026, and Pandora’s Box"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Drone Man<\/h3>\n

My favorite pit bull Clarence
\nHis savage sharp teeth
\nProtrude from his drooling mouth
\nMimicking a Lion in starved rage
\nCarefully, cautiously
\nWe go on a pleasant stroll
\nOver green hills and through
\nValleys of yellow, laughing lilies
\nHis studded leather collar sturdy
\nThe short leash tautly secure
\nWe arrive at the Blue Lagoon
\nFlocks of diverse birds gather
\nJoyful choirs singing glorious poetic choruses.
\nI flash a picture before Clarence
\nAn image of the suspected target duck
\nSketched personally with my presidential pen
\nI tie a sacred red, white and blue bandana
\nOver my pit bull\u2019s bulging eyes
\nEffectively blinding him
\nI remove all restraints
\nI issue stern and proper binding orders
\n\u201cGo and Kill!!!\u201d I bark out
\nOff he rides into the sunset
\nMoments later Clarence returns
\nColorful feathers fill his obedient mouth.
\nSO NOT SORRY!!!
\nOur suspected terrorists
\nWere a family on the way to a wedding!?!
\nWelcome to the world of collateral damage.
\nThank Allah it was in Yemen
\n\u2019Cause if that shit happened here
\nWe would Nuke \u2019Em.<\/p>\n

Executed Without Trial: Alleged Crime Selling Cigarettes<\/h3>\n

Eric Garner I watched you die
\nNo loving farewells, no last goodbye
\nSimply hanging out on the street
\nGetting hassled by the heat
\n“I’m tired of you messing with me”
\nA sentiment many say honestly
\n\u2019Cause in Amerikkka it’s a sin
\nTo have darker skin
\nEric Garner you were assassinated
\nOh how much you were hated
\n\u2019Cause those there to serve and protect
\nShowed contempt and no respect
\nEric Garner I watched you die
\nBut hear this anguished cry
\nLet it be known
\nYou did not die alone
\nFor in that choking hate
\nSo died my hope for the state
\nEric Garner we shall not forget
\nAnother Emit Till to regret
\nEric Garner I watched you die
\nBut now is not the time to cry
\nThey killed you in a hurry
\nDenied you a fixed jury
\nNow is the time to fight
\nNow is the time to make it right
\nWe have a solution
\nIts name is revolution
\nEric Garner I watched you die
\nThe question is why?
\nI know the answer
\nAnd so do you sir
\nRacism is an institutionalized thing my friend
\nAnd it’s high time to bring it to an end
\nAgree with me when I say
\n“It’s got to end today”<\/p>\n

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Pandora\u2019s Box<\/h3>\n

Judge a man by his clothes, how were you born?
\nChrist the King \u2013 he knows a crown made of thorns
\nFascists in business suits promoting lies
\nPress the tragic button everyone dies<\/p>\n

Pandora\u2019s Box is empty
\nDo you have eyes to see?
\nPandora\u2019s Box is empty
\nSlaves in the Land of the Free
\nPandora\u2019s Box is empty<\/p>\n

War is declared, I got scared full of fright
\nAnger surged inside, what gives you the right?
\nAcross the globe, a world away they say
\nThe evil infidel, we\u2019ll make them pay<\/p>\n

Pandora\u2019s Box is empty
\nDo you have eyes to see?
\nPandora\u2019s Box is empty
\nSlaves in the Land of the Free
\nPandora\u2019s Box is empty<\/p>\n

Fracking in the Earth water is destroyed
\nBusinessman makes money he\u2019s overjoyed
\nWho cares about the future I got mine
\nThis hell hole was once Eden divine<\/p>\n

Pandora\u2019s Box is empty
\nDo you have eyes to see?
\nPandora\u2019s Box is empty
\nSlaves in the Land of the Free
\nPandora\u2019s Box is empty<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a golden chest
\nTreasure is the best
\nGold, silver, Mammon
\nEndless war and famine
\nHatred, greed, strife
\nAll the pains of life<\/p>\n

Children singing praise to the god of lust
\nBow before the priest, give man all you trust
\nStalin, Hitler \u2013 demagogues of pain
\nIn the institutions find the sane<\/p>\n

Pandora\u2019s Box is empty
\nDo you have eyes to see?
\nPandora\u2019s Box is empty
\nSlaves in the Land of the Free
\nPandora\u2019s Box is empty<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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John Kaniecki resides in Montclair, New Jersey with Sylvia his wife of nearly ten years. John believes in the peaceful power of words to transform society for the better. He has been published in around fifty poetry sites or magazines. Currently his first poetry book “Murmurings of a Mad Man<\/a>” was released in September. This book is a psychological and spiritual poetic expression of mental illness from the point of view of the mentally ill.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My favorite pit bull Clarence
\nHis savage sharp teeth
\nProtrude from his drooling mouth
\nMimicking a Lion in starved rage
\nCarefully, cautiously
\nWe go on a pleasant stroll
\nOver green hills and through
\nValleys of yellow, laughing lilies<\/p>\n

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