Beltway Pome

warm bread
lines
a fire sale
Brokaw outlives Tito Puente
snorts at Putin
about corruption
forgive Brokaw, Lord
Putin's vision of democracy:
protect property owners
Mr. Putin,
how did they get that property?
Brokaw, who doesn't ask this,
is anyway right
but he has no groove
morally speaking
you understand
here in the beltway
NBC nightly news
is a local show
the Pentagon
is much smaller
than I imagined
we are all within
six degrees or less
of Ken Bacon
are there newspoets here?
newspoets:
here the FBI
is a tourist destination
that is poetry enough
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