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All men won't be brothers

A poem by Keith Morton

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All men won't be brothers . . . except when brothers in arms,

all women won't be sisters . . . except when coming to harm

All the world won't be a free market . . . when some are freer than others . . .

. . .to set the agenda, to set the price . . . all women are single mothers

All is not for the best in the best of all possible worlds . . . never has been . . .

. . . but that doesn't, never can mean this is the best world we've ever seen

We've done the math, the science, unleashed the charms . . .

. . . but all men won't be brothers . . . except when brothers in arms

All men won't be brothers . . . except when brothers in arms,

all women want men to be firemen . . . but, oh, the false alarms!

All children shall self-improve on their inheritance,

all children shall aspire . . . to be young Americans

All foreigners shall remain under the blackest suspicion,

all nations shall choose the visionary over the vision

The United Nations shall kiss ass, buy the farm . . .

. . . all men won't be brothers . . . except when brothers in arms

All men won't be brothers . . . except when brothers in arms,

will say, 'You can't choose your family', shrug, rugged with charm

All men will salute the flag, don uniforms, deny they are fags,

pledge allegiance to the brotherhood, laugh mirthlessly at men in drag

All sisters will be wary of words like equality,

as long as no change is the mainstay of policy . . .

. . . made by . . .men . . . bringers, harnessers of the light, harbingers of harm . . .

. . .all men won't be brothers . . . except when brothers in arms

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