No Truce Now

Longtime downstream of the relic union,
coal-fired gangsters are shylocking billions
to our hangdog daughter. We've milled

similar missiles, jeopardized everything
to the prevailing war god. Streaming far
into the dead country, six deals west

of the brink, she's ballistic with cheapskate
retaliation, a ground-launched killer
striking rockets at a paper lake.

-- David Stinson

Putin warns of new Cuban missile crisis
No truce in tri-state water war
Greg Scarpa Sr. talked too much, mobster says