Old Vinegar ruminates upon the tribulation Calamities, catastrophes, Middle East aversions The Arab oil industry's lucrative inflation Arbitrary power plays, citizen desertions
The patriot's epiphany, a kaleidoscopic stain Fear and hate, foreign nations, xenophobic brains Love of country, isolation, victors never deign The State's united hallucination, self-delusions strain
Israel miscalculates, ensuring her entombment Palestine infuriates, progress mars improvement Tyranny burgeons through liberty's arraignment Barbarity, brutality guarantee estrangement
The patriarchal martyr crowd renovates the mushroom cloud A hand-me-down extinction from unhewn men of straw Budding teenage nihilists demoralized and raw Build new terror training camps for the ceaseless Holy War
