The System Poem by Stephen S. Yeandle

the quintessential film noir
debut in
two thousand three

DC

careful orchestration
of
cognitive dissonance

neoconservative strategy

Pax Americana

beading and embroidery
a little smoke and mirror
helps to make the sale

no aesthetic morals
remove them from our way

wars essential to a government

best occupy and acquiesce
the minds of questioning men

drive them across the Rubicon
then
no turning back

Locked and loaded
armaments

perpetuated power

macho choreography

by a rhinestone cowboy
from Connecticut