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Poetry of Issue 9: New Doc Watson

New Doc Watson Blues

I rarely have prayed

For a place to invade

I don’t have to look for my prey.

When I  bring lethal woes

To strangers and foes;

It’s  how leaders all get through their day.

Political blues.

Is all in the news;

Maybe I’ll snooze

When it’s over.

Pass me the booze

Nothing to lose

Don’t want to live my life sober.

I might be the guy

Who murders a spy

In  London or north Patagonia.

I may kill the man

Who runs Kazakhstan

Stifles his brood with ammonia. .

by Matthew Paris

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