in whose name do I kill now?

now that America's own fundamentalist terrorists

have surfaced in the "Tea Party" brand name

of ignorance fear and hatred

for whose agenda do I bear arms?

do I pick up a gun and start firing away

at unpatriotic Right Wing gangsters

who've killed us picked our pockets and left us

a corpse by the roadside?

should I side with the nobly self-regarding Left

and bless the spectacle from inside a gated 'community'

while mind-controlling their bratty little bastards

with status and an intractable sense of entitlement?

anarchy? what the hell is anarchy

but another pretense to the Socratic Dilemma

and a gang of malcontents who'll turn on each other

when they've exhausted their supply of easy foes?

so with the lost Republican dream of individuality

NOT excluding help to one's neighbor--

so with the lost Democratic ideal of all needs filled

and a perpetual acknowledgments of all shades of One--

so with the anarchists who fail because they have not

evolved to the understanding of autonomy--

so it is with my hesitation that keeps me from forward movement--

how on earth (literally) do I defend myself

without being any one of these?

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