A Stopped-Clock Orange
(in the Shakespearian Sonnet style)

A stopped-clock, twice a day, tells proper time.
Or so we hear it said by common sense.
This idiom relates to rampant Crime
produced and nurtured by a cadre dense,
who speak unendingly of their “lethality,”
obsessed with reputation as war-fighters
who traffic brazenly in “illegality”
but who, in fact, are merely war-igniters:
The Pentagon. Where “clockwork” means mechanical
and “orange” hints at motivating nature.
A corporate regime vast and tyrannical
in love with its self-serving nomenclature
tells time twice daily on stopped orange clocks:
proof that it's both inane and orthodox.