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"Slant" by Marc Isaac Potter



The slant

The revocation of his voice


We are revoking his voice from society

His poet's piercing and longing


Song of how things really are


Robert Haas' poems in

Summer Snow


I can see why the Nazis

And by Nazis in this case

I mean the German Nazis


Stomping through countries like they

Were jelly.


Not the current bastardized

Brainwashed Nazis, led by dumb

People who only care about

Crawling raw power.


I’m sick in the heart.

On top of an old

Heart


The tulips pretend they are sunflowers

But fail to grow 11 feet tall.


The cypress trees

That grace the driveway of the

Influential man



Fall one by two

To say they have had enough.

Even though the natural world

Rejects Naziism and longs

For the poet's voice


It has been revoked

By those pretending

To be wise and brave,


But they drink us all

In fear.

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