A Boy Called MarianBy JP McMenamin
Neo-Conservative
Wore a gun
A bit to the right
Of Atilla the Hun.
Icon of the silver screen
With a funny walk
Monosyllabic, halting speech
Found it hard-to-ah-talk. Always spoiling for a fight
Bandana, scarlet red
Bullets flying everywhere
Bad guys laying dead. As time wore on he got confused
Brain got sizzled always boozed
Nuke the bastards he would say
“God’s behind the USA.” Gave his views on world affairs
It was always black and white
America – the USA
Was always in the right. Hung his six guns every night
On nail above his bed
Secretly, he wore a wig
On his bald eagle head. His films had a sameness
No patron of the arts
He played himself in every one
No variance, in the parts. Acting like a Statesman
Laying down the law
If anyone could disagree
He’d punch them in the jaw He became a cartoon figure
To watch him caused me pain
In time, he even came to believe
That his name was big John Wayne.
How sad.
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