INCOMING

INCOMING!

tread gingerly
read carefully

something
already incoming
could get
you through
the window

can pick you
off from between the words
before you
get to
turn the page

and you thought
you could climb out
your foxhole
think
things out
come to your own
conclusions

by virtue of licence gifted
very day you were born

Oh I tried that for size
shot
down of flames
to the sound of
universal joy at
the demise
of unashamed arrogance

thinking
the right to
laugh inalienable,

satire
with a right to exist at all

for
the tax
must be paid, no
quarrel
with Caesar, like
the poor
evil be blessed to
always win
always be around

no clearer target
that one
walking on water

incoming,
the plan is to get you
way before
the punchline

the joke
still on us, has always been so
from the beginning of time