Today’s New Verse News: THEY GROW AN AWFUL LOT OF AWFUL IN BRAZIL
by Steven Kent
"'We will not surrender': Bolsonaro militants demand coup as Lula prepares to take power.” —The Guardian, December 22, 2022
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Law and order, we demand. A military coup Will go (we hope!) the way we planned, Since Bolsonaro's through. Ironic? Sure, but that's our way; The Left will not enjoy it When Right makes might makes right. We say, To save Brazil, destroy it!
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Steven Kent is the poetic alter ego of writer, musician, and Oxford comma enthusiast Kent Burnside. His work appears in Light, Lighten Up Online, Snakeskin, and OEDILF, among others.