The Power Play

I've written a "rap": or maybe it is Hip-Hop, or R & B, I'm not sure -- think gangstas from urban areas will soon be wanting to record this. ---------------------------

"The Power Play

(giving it the finger)"

He says "Jump,"

You say "How high?"

So reactive

My oh my

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To do what's right a person must

Carefully think about whom to trust

Looking at motives and their recourse,

And always, always consider the source

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Dominoes fall so predictably

The schemer taps, seems cryptically,

But his plan is firm in mind

Much experience of the kind

Has shown him the results he can get

With prestige positions he has met.

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His penchant to precipitate

tense relations and manipulate

so that one feels strong,

the other feels wrong,

and -- sort of like Hong Kong

when given back to the red Chinese,

was like, "don't start picking

I'm begging you, please!"

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Listen to your level-headed self

Instead of that mischief-making,

squint-eyed elf,

Who, like Iago of Shakespeare's play,

wonders, "Whom can I mess up

and put down, today?"

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He encounters you, inclusive,

and draws you in,

Above the shark, in the water, the fin

Is like that first domino

That was upright until

He tapped it, going on in for the kill,

No weapons needed --

just that one,

determined,

pudgy

finger.

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