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Motive For Amnesia

by Nancy Ames

His eyes are cold and haunted,
the facts are never pretty,
that`s why America`s Most Wanted
must save this wicked city.

They will search the living earth
with authority and power
because they know what work is worth,
they can watch it by the hour.

When Bambi looked at Thunder Bay
and freedom and the north,
no one heard her sigh and say,
"I`m just going back and forth."

Her past was not the purest,
she`s a lot more wild than tame,
like a fawn runs through the forest
and the victim gets the blame.

Journalists love sex appeal
but prefer a good cartoon
and "it really could be real",
she`s laughing like a loon.

When smug, successful bastards
enforce the mediocre
and a set of double standards,
then justice is the joker.

All the pseudo psychopaths,
who never do but teach,
can take too many baths
and walk along the beach.

But when their electronic arrow
tries to pierce the winter nights,
someone sees the falling sparrow
and hides her in the northern lights.

03/28/2018

Author's Note: This is quite old, references a well publicised refugee case at the time, but the points it makes are still valid today.

Posted on 03/28/2018
Copyright © 2026 Nancy Ames

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