Looking down the barrel of this dark gun
The experts careful not to be alarmist
But agreed we must prepare for that which will come
Not as spectator sport
Perhaps a decade of preperation grace
Perhaps vastly less
The strike of iron through a sea of hearts
It does not matter when this evil comes
It comes and
We must strengthn our levees
To have any hope of dignity
With which to greet it.

Bill Grace

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