MISTY TIDAL BASIN VIEW
OF JEFFERSON'S MEMORIAL - FREEDOM'S NUMBER TWO
DUCK'S SWIM BY,
CUTTING THE SMOOTH SURFACE SO BLITHE
DESERTED TOURIST ATTRACTION
NEAR DAWN'S MORN
GIVES CALM SATISFACTION
OF AMERICA'S INTEGRITY WHEN LIBERTY WAS BORN
ACROSS THE THROBBING EMPLOYEE'S ROAD
SITS COLUMBIA'S MEMORIAL TO THIS CENTURY'S
FIRST WORLD WAR'S HERO LOAD
FAGAN, BUCHANAN, LEE AND HADAD
MAY WE STRIVE TO MAINTAIN A COUNTRY IN WHICH THEY'D BE GLAD.
CUTTING NORTH THROUGH JFK FIELD
PASSING THE NEW FOUNTAIN - WHICH WOULD HAVE
CAUGHT BROTHER ROBERT'S APPEAL
ONE MARVELS AT THE MALL'S CLASSICAL FEEL,
LOOKING WEST THROUGH AIR OR WATER
LINCOLN'S GREEK TEMPLE IS A SIGHT OF SPLENDOR.
LOOKING EAST TOWARDS Z RISING SUN
WASHINGTON'S EGYPTIAN OBELISK STIRS FASCINATION
BEYOND WHICH LIES -
IN HAZY OUTLINE
DEMOCRACY'S ASSEMBLY -
THE CAPITOL,
AND IT'S TREASURES - THE SMITHSONIAN
JUST ACROSS - AND NOT TOO FAR FROM CONSTITUTION AVENUE
STANDS A DOUBLE - EDGED SWORD OF FLAMING RUINATION
MEMORIAL OF THE "WAR - TO - END - ALL - WARS"
HEROES FROM OUR NATIONS
STARTED IN 1914 AND STILL YET RAGING (WORLDWIDE)
AS LONG AS EVIL RAPES GOD'S LIFE -
FOR IT'S SICK RATIONS
FOR FOOLS YET OPPRESS,
BY AVARICE
ARE DEATH MERCHANTS POSSESSED,
EVEN IN THIS AGE WHEN UN - BRIDLED WAR COULD EXTINCT ALL OF US!
ROLLING WEST THROUGH THE LAKELAND MALL
ONE SEES AN ISLAND REMINDER OF THOSE WHO SIGNED LIBERTY'S
DECLARATION - PLEDGING THEIR ALL,
LEADING SOON TO THE VIET - NAM WALL
WHEREUPON ARE WRITTEN MY OLDER BROTHERS NAMES WHO DID FALL,
FROM JOHN H ANDERSON TO JESSIE C ALBA AND, YES! -
- THERE'S EVEN A FLOYD, Y'ALL!!
JUST BEYOND SITS HOLY ABRAHAM
WITH HIS WORDS OF AGAPE AND WISDOM,
TO WHOM TOO FEW THESE DAYS PAY ANY ATTENTION
OUTSIDE ALONG THE POTOMAC
BRONZE HORSES & PEOPLE GUARD THE GATELETS
HEADING WITH WINGS NORTH, (ON THE STATUES)
HEADING WITH "SACRIFICE" SOUTH, (TO THE CEMETARY)
AND HEADING INTO Z WATER WEST (@ THE ORIGINAL "WATER'S GATE")
OF TRANSOMS DIVERSE -
INCLUDING THOSE FLANKING "MEMORIAL" (BRIDGE)
IRONICALY CREATED BY A GERMAN, AND IN ITALY CAST...
TRAVERSING -
- THE FLOWING CHASM WHICH DID ONCE THIS NATION SPLIT
SLOWLY, ON FOOT ONE CAN SEE THE KENNEDY'S
LIVING MEMORIAL, LIFE SHINING 'ROUND IT
TEDDY ROOSEVELT'S ISLE, THE MARBLE CITY'S RIVER SKYLINE
- WHAT BEAUTY IS THIS -
WHILE APPROACHING THE HALLOWED GROUND
WHERE SOME OF THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST MUST REST
RISING UP ALONG STONE ROAD - ONE SEE'S THE HEROES
ROW ON ROW ON ROW ON ROW,
AND JUST BELOW - THE STATELY MANSION
A MOST HONORABLE PLACEMENT - SERVES AS THE PENSION
FOR JOHN FITZGERALD
AND ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY
A PAIR OF LION - HEARTED LEADERS
FOR THE HUMANE - LY FREE
WE THANK LIFE FOR PEOPLE SUCH AS THESE
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A MODERN MORALITY PLAY - like sketch Ca. '83
along the lines of the Twilight Zone Series called....
JUSTICE IS A MANY HUED THING
(MANY COLORED THING)
Scene opens at a public plaza in a major American City downtown area (like the ABC Entertainment Center at Century City in L.A.).
It is the lunch hour and workers from the surrounding Office buildings are eating their meal and milling around the central open area where a solitary singer with guitar is performing. Dressed casually, with slightly scruffy hair and a day's growth on his face - he contrasts sharply with the "yuppie" three - piece suit crowd he is attempting to entertain/educate through the simple style folk protest song he sings.............
P.S. (Protest Singer)
"WHEN YER DAMNED IF YA DO -
AN DAMNED IF YA DON'T - YA DAMNED WELL MIGHT AS WELL,
TA FOIL HELL, BLOKE! (intro line/refrain)
HOW MANY PEOPLE DIED TODAY
FROM BULLETS MADE IN THE U. S. A. ?
HOW MANY PEOPLE DIED TODAY
COURTESY OF DEATH SQUADS TRAINED BY THE C. I. A.
JUST TO SUPPORT THE FIRST WORLD'S STANDARD OF LIV-ING ?"
(pronounced w/slight British Accent = lae - ving)
After this verse, one of the well dressed young neo - conservatives walks up to him with a twisted scowl on his face,
N.C. (Neo - Conservative) "Hey buddy!"
P.S. "Yeah?"
N.C. smites P.S. on the cheek, firmly - almost
knocks him down.
P.S. "Uhh" he staggers, regains composure rapidly - then faces N.C. grimly with his other cheek set towards him.
P.S. "Go ahead and smash me again - I always like to give people their fullest opportunity to DAMN THEMSELVES!"
A look of animal rage comes over N.C.'s face - which grows into a pleasured snarl.
N.C. "OK! - you asshole foo-ooo - aaahh!! - eeee!!!"
At this point, just as N.C.'s arm is cocked and beginning to strike - an intense beam of red light envelopes N.C. from above, seeming to overcome him and inflict excruciating pain. The color of the light beam then goes through a cycle of about ten seconds duration in which various hues correspond to levels of pain inflicted upon N.C. He squirms, writhes and screams as he succumbs to the "treatment" which ceases after a couple cycles - however, it continues to control/restrain his actions.
P.S. "Say, how's it feel to get instant retribution for your
fascism?"
N.C. "Y'know - I don't understand this bullshit happening - all I know is that this country would be a hell of a lot better off without assholes like you around!"
Immediately the pain cycle starts again - for one cycle.
P.S. "Guys like you sure learn slowly - of course, that's why you still don't understand what this country's supposed to be all about! LISTEN BUDDY! Why don't you go home
and read the bleedin' Declaration of Independence and Z's Bill of Rights! Then you might have some idea of what this country's Founders intended it to BE!!"
At this point the control beam breaks off - N.C. is left standing, looking blandly at P.S. He regains his composure and grins nastily.
N.C. "Well, at least I've left you with a reminder of my opinion, Jerk! ha! ho! That cheek of yours is swelling up like a squirrels' - full of nuts! Haha - hee!"
At this moment - a multi - hued lightning - like flash envelopes the two for an instant - in which - a mirror, as it were is formed between the two momentarily - after which the swollen cheek has been transferred from P.S. to N.C.
N.C. "Ooowww-eeee, Shit! God - damn it. Ah guess I should have kept my mouth shut when I was ahead! OW!!! I sure pack a good punch, punk, don't I?"
P.S. "It's pretty easy fool - when you hit a sitting duck target like me - but it did you no good in the long run, you see!?!...........................???
By the way, dude, if I were you I'd worry less about
getting a - head and more about using the one on your shoulders!!"
N.C. walks away nursing his jaw with a dejected look.
P.S. picks guitar up and begins to play again. A faintly visible total spectrum light (white, that is) envelopes him and spreads out to the appreciative onlookers.
Fade - out music comes up - the National Anthem.
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Variation: original concept envisions light emanating from an infinite distance or out of "thin air" (cf. a Trek ship).
A singular mystical "cloud" source would also work.