Monday, December 6, 2021

Banners That Fan Our People Cold - doggerel

 Inferior doggerel, not otherwise posted


Lawrence Hall

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Banners That Fan Our People Cold

 

Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky

And fan our people cold

 

-Macbeth I.i.49-50

 

Banners for sale, strung on lines in the breeze

Not an American flag among the lot

But only parodies and mockeries -

Betray your country with cash on the spot

 

In the name of freedom a tyrant’s face

Falsely imposed over our red, white, and blue

Children will ask, in their innocent grace:

“Mommy, whatever does F*** mean to you?”

 

These are not our good brave flags of old

But only foulness that fans our people cold


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