The Greatest Visibility Never Seen
(a Terza Rima 14-line sonnet: an homage to Dante Alighieri and Percy Shelley)
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Again we hear that none have seen the visible,
what everyone has seem time and again,
a repetition of the truly risible:

the mice of our regime portraying men.
Like Hegseth and Bessant at "War" and Treasury,
aspiring bantam roosters playing hen,

each caught up in a self-inflicted pleasure he
could not examine and explain if asked:
"Why have you driven us into such penury?"

Their answer (Donald's perfidy unmasked):
"Trump told us Israel had given orders.
With causing bloodshed we, by Trump, were tasked.

A 'Greater Israel' requires new borders,
and for this prison, we would be co-warders."

Michael Murry, "The Misfortune Teller," Copyright © 2026