Your Kind of Strong

 

Your kind of strong sounds so certain and sure

As you spout about ills you've no clue how to cure

As you play on our fears—threaten, scare and pretend

That the sure way to peace is your war without end

Yes, I know we have true enemies out there

I know that they've been there all along

But there are more now than ever

After four years of your kind of strong

 

Your kind of strong says, It's my way or else

And God help the senator who still has a pulse

No debate or dissent, or discussing the facts

It's the silence that leads to unspeakable acts

And as for all of those French complications

Well, you can bench-press them back where they belong

With all the whiners who can't divine

The hand behind your kind of strong

 

Your kind of strong says, This is our due

You can join in the Party, or we'll have done with you

But what have you done with the laws of this land

Made to keep us all free from imperial command?

Desperate times call for desperate measures, you say

As the Treasury is emptied for a song

And the profiteers give three cheers

It's clear who likes your kind of strong

 

Your kind of strong says, I'll keep you safe

All you need do is willingly suspend disbelief

For the help that you render

Just one small price to pay

That we let your agenda be the rule of the day

Now even those on the Right grow uncertain

For certain can still be dead wrong

Though you'd never know it from the poetry

You crow about your kind of strong

 

Your kind of strong is a chattering gun

If our fear re-elects you, have the terrorists won?

Uniter of all, meaning far less than half

If it weren't all so sad, I could bring myself to laugh

Oh, reality community—awaken!

I pray we hear the voice of the throng, saying:
What could make us weaker

            Than four more years of your kind of strong?

 

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