The ongoing spread of antimissile installations
indicates that there may soon be strife between great nations,
that these years are, for all intents & purposes, pre-War,
an Age when -- not “Democracy”! -- but Big Lies flourish, ‘soar
on wings of eagles’, set the bloody Middle East afire
with overt bombs and sneaking Earnest Voices both. Earth's pyre
is yet unlit, awaiting some Gavrilo Princip’s shot
when BAM! an undeclared “Cold” War clicks suddenly to “Hot”.
