THE GATES OF EDEN

"The savage soldier" sarcastic: General Dwight Eisenhower who was accused of being too soft on the Soviets by the right "sticks his head in sand" ignores historical precedents "sand" history; Chronicles, "MacLeish wrote deep poems, was the man of godless sand. He could take real people from history, people like Emperor Charles or Montezuma and Cortes the Conquistador, and with the tender touch of a creator, deliver them right to your door." "And then complains" about Soviet expansionism "Unto the shoeless" unto Nikita Khrushchev who took his shoe off and banged it on the Soviet Delegations desk at the United Nations in 1960 "hunter" John Fitzgerald Kennedy: "Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas." "who's gone deaf" who ignores IKE's complaints; who is wearing earphones that provides him with a translation "But still remains" but nonetheless remains "Upon the beach" in a protected area, the United Nations Tarantula, "i know it very well the beaches are extremely fantastic - i hear the fuzz are down there now tho 'yeah baby the fuzz come in about last Christmas'" Chronicles, "slow speed nosed up on a protective beach at night" "where hound dogs" diplomats "bay" express by barking or howling: a mob baying its approval "At ships" at revolutions as in The Hour That The Ship Comes In "with tattooed" a permanent mark or design such as a RED STAR "Heading for the Gates of Eden" trying to destroy America by penetrating its borders as Communism is 90 miles away from Key West in Cuba. "Hound dogs" as diplomats: Everything is Broken

Broken hands on broken ploughs,
Broken treaties, broken vows,
Broken pipes, broken tools,
People bending broken rules.
Hound dog howling, bull frog croaking,
Everything is broken.

"Broken hands" broken signatures "on broken ploughs" Isiah 2:4 "And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more" "Broken treaties" between the Israelis and the Palestinians "broken vows" broken promises of peace "Broken pipes" pipe bombs exploding, fragmenting "broken tools" Palestinians being used as tools, manipulated by others into performing suicidal missions "People bending" Palestinians ignoring or changing rules to suit themselves "broken rules" rules governing human rights that have already been broken by the Israelis "Hound dog" Israeli diplomats "howling" drowning out or silencing peace by loud derisive calls: 'The candidate was howled down at the town meeting'" "bullfrog" soldiers: frog: a military style fastening on a coat consisting of a button and a loop "croaking" dying "Everything is broken." Tarantula, "onward then when Brown Dan, the creep cop - who likes to kill bullfrogs & whose boss keeps saying "he's got a bad knee but you oughta see him run, babe, you oughta see 'm run & chase them little chink lovers when they come down the river."

The foreign sun, it squints upon
A bed that is never mine
As friends and other strangers
From their fates try to resign
Leaving men wholly, totally free
To do anything they wish to do but die
And there are no trials inside the Gates of Eden

"The foreign" the Communist; Tarantula, "wonder who ronald reagan talked to about the foreign situation? think about it kid, but dont ask any foreigners" "sun" enlightenment "it squints upon" it barely illuminates "a bed" a very basis; a foundation: 'Ownership of land is the bedrock of democracy' "that is never mine" that I can never embrace, reconcile myself to "As friends" as those friendly to the United States "and other strangers" but who are often not treated as such; In 1956 America refused to back the Hungarian Uprising. What was worse was that during the uprising, the Radio Free Europe's Hungarian-language programs broadcast news of the political and military situation, as well as appealing to Hungarians to fight the Soviet forces, including tactical advice on resistance methods. After the Soviet suppression of the revolution, Radio Free Europe was criticized for having misled the Hungarian people that NATO or United Nations would intervene if the citizens continued to resist "From their fates try to resign" try to overthrow their dirty communist overseers "Leaving men" abandoning the Hungarians and leaving them "wholly, totally free" sarcastic, overstatement not subject to arbitrary interference by a government: 'a free press' "To do anything they wish to do but die" to do anything they wished except die trying to destroy the Soviet tanks that rolled in "And there are no trials inside the Gates of Eden" and there are no staged Communist show trials in the United States of America! After the failed uprising there was Stalinist show trials, after which thousands of people were hanged and tossed in unmarked graves.

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