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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

The Four-Letter Word for Peace Is Kill

“War is peace”- George Orwell

Updating Yeats’s
“The best lack all conviction
While the worst are full of passionate intensity”
I’d say
The best lack all conviction
Because they are busy convicting themselves online
While the worst are full of a passionate intensity
For prosecuting a war
On all those who don’t think them the best
 
This war is, of course, called peace
Because some sayings never need updating

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