An Acronymic Avarice
(a Terza Rima 14-line sonnet: an homage to Dante Alighieri and Percy Shelley)
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“Hegseth’s Devotional Sycophancy”
for which “HDS,” as a short-hand, was coined.
A “lethal,” behind-smooching “warfighter,” he

has every superlative tongue-bath purloined
to aid greasing up his Pinocchio’s nose
(as well, Hyperbolic itself he’s enjoined)

for later insertion where no sunshine shows
between the plump cheeks of “This President’s” bum.
What little is left for our poems and prose

to tell us the difference between Ho and Hum,
the actual policies of this regime?
Enriching the Wealthy while leaving a crumb

to Bourgeois and Proles, the old Class Warfare scheme.
“HDS” is the lube for “This President’s” Team.