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Purple Heart? Silver Star? (poem)

By John Crandell

One glance at those still frame images
    forced one to sit back. Way back.
It all is - as if the spirit of Frank Capra
    has gone over to the dark side.
Coursing one inch to the right
     a bullet fired by a twenty year old quiet kid
    would have removed the right eyeball
     and shattered the skull of Donald Trump.
Well bully-bully - one hundred and twenty three years in the wake
    of Theodore Roosevelt becoming the nation's chief executive
     upon the assassination of William McKinley.
A bullied kid has nearly killed the 21st Century's
     Bully in Chief.

Today - four days later, Ramblin' Joe Biden has "got nasty"
     with a Bronze Star Democrat...
"It don't mean nothin'" no longer applies.

— John Crandell