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POETRY
Snake Oil
Hoping this doesn’t remain current events for long
Oct 19, 2020
Note: Below the poem is an audio clip of the author reading the poem.
He sells a prescription,
a medical fiction
that can’t really cure our ills.
It comes from no science,
is but an appliance
of one who won’t care whom he kills,
who hopes it distracts
from disquieting facts
about how he’s exerting his will.
This fells his proponents
much more than opponents,
yet most of them vote for him still.
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Copyright ©2020, Paul H. Harder II
This poem is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 License
