When War Criminals Make Love

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when war criminals

make love, 

oh, the press gets butterflies

their pens sing

"pat and rub my tummy, too"

they wax so poetic

"tell me who

can make love over war

the way war criminals do?"

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patriciajj's picture

I absolutely relished your

I absolutely relished your razor-sharp skewering of that gleefully heartless entity: corporate media. 

 

"oh, the press gets butterflies

their pens sing

'pat and rub my tummy, too'" 

 

Thank you! Someone had to say it. 

 

And you said it so well. 

1SP's picture

The satire cuts clean in this

The satire cuts clean in this one. The way you show the media swooning over power while ignoring the damage behind it is sharp and unsettling