Saint Fletcher the Obscure

[Phil Dragoo]

I watched Platoon four times.

The Wall came down

The Vietnam War as a parallel to the Reichstag Fire was not ever addressed

Oliver Stone miscast Kevin Costner at the cost of killing rather than wounding the King

To this day he registers shock at the bared-fang hissing of his "friends"

It once was heady stuff to "Think the Unthinkable"

Now we must speak the Unspeakable

Oliver Stone, as are we all, is still mortal

Now as Samuel Barber is added to the bathos over the victims of Northwoods for The New Millenium

We ought to question all from Forrestal's fall

to the airbrushing of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s allusion to Douglass

as the price for Caroline's portfolio

We didn't go for Tonkin, we didn't go for Norman

It's not for civil rights that Syria's war clouds are formin'

It's for the multinational electronic spooky Reaper's whim

and you canna' write your bloggy blogs

if yer comin' afta him