NSA Leaks

“Big Brother’s watching.”

The tinfoil man kept saying

“Beware of Big Brother.”

“Be careful of hat you say,”

“Be careful of what you do”

“Because he is watching”

“In each and every way.”

The Snowy man confirmed this

Through his five wise eyes

He published his reports

On the secrets of NSA.

The media

Ate the info up

Digested it

Spewed it over the public

Revealing cable treaties

All around the world.

“Don’t be silly,”

The boundary breaker said.

“There’s no such program.”

The Snowy man left for the Bear

Under espionage charges and theft accusations.

105. The Cold War

The cold beast from the north

Became colder when he and China had their revolutions.

After the great global wars

Soviet and American became enemies.

Totalitarian Soviet dictator

Democratic American president

Dropped the iron curtain

Splitting the Germanies and Berlins.

Democracy and Communism.

Locked in a frozen war.

An arms race

Made the mushroom proliferate.

New breeds were developed.

Each one more powerful than the last.

We sold our souls to end the war.

The threat of hellish fire was the price we paid.

Each side had the bomb now.

There was always the chance of annihilation.

The clock on the magazine

Told the time

Counting the minutes to Doomsday.

More countries caught Communism.

It spread like an evil red disease

With that came the bomb.

Everyone wanted the bomb.

Everyone thought their country would benefit.

The United States and Britain needed quarantine.

They sent spies.

The other side sent spies too.

Democracy was a disease to Russia.

Governments became quiet with secrets.

People questioned what was going on.

Iron eating moths of mistrust nibbled into their curtain

They watched each other through their holes

As the fog of paranoia flowed out into the land.

103. World War II

The crisis in Europe became a global one.
The allies,
Heroes of the previous war, needed to do something.
America tried her hardest to stay out of it.
The Roosevelt clan was in office again.
He told us not to fear.
The only thing to fear was fear.
In reality, he wanted to get involved.
He needed something,
Anything to take us into the war.
We couldn’t stand idly by while millions of lives were thrown to the fire.
But what could it be?
The date came
That lived in infamy.
Japan, the imperialist,
Sent her planes
Bombing every last ship in the harbor of pearls.
It was a swift and backhanded attack.
Roosevelt said, “That’s it!”
He gave speeches and rallied his men.
They went to Europe
They went to the Pacific
Fighting on two fronts.
Churchill did the same for Britain.
“We will fight them on the beaches”
“We will fight them in the air.”
“We will fight them on the seas”.
“Wherever we are we will rid the world of this great beast.”
They went to Africa.
They took back Poland.
They fought over London.
The allies made a deal with the devil of Russia
Because the Beast had betrayed the Soviets.
The evil one invaded and was pushed back by the same cold Napoleon faced.
Now Russia wanted revenge.
D-day, The Bulge, Normandy,
Finally the push for Berlin
The allied forces pinched and squeezed the blemish that the beast placed upon the earth.
The allies invaded the Axis lands
To make sure of their surrender.
The war in Europe were resolved
After the trial for the Beast’s great minions.
If only they could have kept him alive as well.
Whatever he gets now is still too good for him.

98. World War I

An archduke was shot.

The new shot heard around the world.

Weapons were built.

A new war sparked.

Alliances formed.

Germany, Austria, Italy

Russia, France, Britain,

They stood against each other.

Pushed each other.

Never gaining ground.

Monsters rumbled over land

Bringing destruction to lives and property.

The Wright Brothers’ innocent invention turned to war as well.

People lived, fought and died in the trenches.

Both sides bravely faced their bloody stalemate.

Europe became a black hole of war.

Americans preached isolationism

But war came to them anyway.

Lusitania opened the door to America.

A solution finally came.

Mr. Wilson’s pipe dream,

The bubble from his head

Of a perfect world

Happy and peaceful

here nations could bring their problems to a league.

The Treaty of Versailles

Turned the league into reality.

Peace reigned supreme.

The war seemed to be over

For now.

90. Napoleon

A new man came.
Napoleon!
A new Caesar.
Napoleon!
To some a great leader.
Napoleon!
To others the scourge of Europe.
Napoleon!
Born of Corsica.
Napoleon!
Joining the army of France.
Napoleon!
Rising through the ranks.
Napoleon!
To shed the short robes for long ones.
Napoleon!
Napoleon!
Napoleon!
From the terrors of the burning revolutions
With fire in his eyes
The deep, calculating general
Moved out and declared war on Europe.
Eastward!
Eastward!
East he marched
Taking land from Austria
With the dream of Rome in his heart.
He went through Spain and Portugal.
To the ends of the European world!
Napoleon found it hard to resist Russia’s calling
So he crossed the border.
The icy blast of the Russian winter drove him back.
He lost the fight.
He was dethroned and forced into exile.
He escaped and rebuilt his army.
Waterloo was his final defeat.
Napoleon only lived on as a person three more times
But his name and memory will last forever.
He joined the graveyard of dead empires and powerful rulers.
Crossing Hades’ mighty river.

89. The Revolution

Russia built its empire.

Revolution rumors flowed in Europe.

Newton,

Hobbes,

Locke,

Milton,

Many others looked at the world, thinking of it in different ways.

The American colonies got rich.

New agriculture increased food production.

Music reached its height as Mozart played.

Beethoven, Hayden and many others.

New ideas.

New art.

New thoughts

Caused the flames to rise.

From the ancient past

Athens with its small flame.

The flame of freedom.

It split and spread into Rome.

Stayed hidden in the Dark Ages.

Resurrected and grew.

It reached across the sea to the colonies of the New World.

Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams,

Many other disciples of freedom

Fanned the flames of descent.

The flames of revolution.

The fires grew

To the drumbeat of war.

Swiftly, the fire spread

Through Europe

Into the other colonies.

They took their destiny from their brutish king.

Breaking the chains of taxation

Making themselves representatives.

The eagle flew from the nest.

Others wanted the chance to fly.

The fires of freedom spread across the world

Burning out of control.

It spread through the minds and hearts of people

Many got burned

Meeting the scorching blade of the guillotine.

A French republic was formed

But, as with the first European Republic,

It didn’t last.

78. The Mongol Empire

Out of the steppes of Central Asia

Came violent nomads

When drought turned grass to dust.

Their animals starved in famine

Their way of life was threatened.

Thunderous hooves of horses

Flowed in all directions

Like a dust storm

They ripped through cities

Setting fire with abrasive sand

Trampling on poor helpless victims.

They crossed the wall in China,

Scaled the mountains in Tibet,

Cornered the people of Korea,

Fought the blistering heat and sands of Iran

Braved the winters of Russia.

All countries fell to the great Khans.

Then rose the great Golden Horde.

Planted in the center of Asia.

Their navies tried for Japan

But the divine winds weren’t with them.

For two days the typhoon blew

Decimating the Khan’s mighty fragile fleet.

The Mongols threatened Europe

Like hungry wolves at Europe’s doorstep

Waiting for their victim to come out

They threatened the people

Only nipping and biting at her heals.

They could go no further.

The death of a king

Quieted the thunderous wave

Of men and horses.