Michael David Morrissey Poems

Rockin' rollin', rattlin', mov'in, shakin'
incredible breathtaking, belief-defying mastermind,
the one and only Perp of Perps, Mother of All Crimes,
'tis I, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,
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Hail, Sol Invictus.

Pray tell what mortal hand or eye
could frame such irony,
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(On his address to the UN, Sept.20,2006.)

Your words bring solace to a damaged nation
not yours, but mine, a limping giant
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Tus palabras traen consuelo a una nación dañada
no la tuya, sinó la mía, un gigante que cojea
herido en su alma por sus propios líderes,
los hombres que llamas imperialistas y diablos, asesinos, torturadores.
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Write a novel, Vee tells me, and I say,
Aren't there enough lies in the world?
I'm thinking of the great works of fiction,
great in the sense of big, like the Warren Report,
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