they are the dangerously secret stuff of legend
classic conspiracies and local lore
officially understood as caused by stupidity and lies

but they instill a thrilling helplessness
that confounds conveniently with fear
of shady shadow governmental power
paired with outright criminal ties

looking up into their darkness
you best believe your lying eyes
for when the black helicopters come
everybody dies

don’t dare squeal these guys are real
a covert cartel operating from inside fort bragg
militarily empowered thugs financed by drugs
stamped with our own star-spangled flag

blindly backed up by corrupt top brass
covering their ass
as shit-stained in afghan mud through which they did dutifully drag
the fubar and the frag
no matter how compromised

because when they come
it’s not just some
it’s everyone who dies

and with these guys especially so
since no one will ever truly know
the culture of violence our forever wars deploy

wholesale murder trafficking in drugs and torture
until all potential for any semblance of civil society is destroyed

meanwhile
in their deadly silence those helicopters do fly
sailing only just so high
above any city
or state
unseen they wait
wicked whispers in the sky

Live/Free/or/Die

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