License to Kill Hope
Matt Morris
in a white room with a white
cat & a lizard
007 wakes up
not with a buxom blonde bomb-
shell russian double
agent but strapped writhing to
a torture device
also white as is his sports
coat the blinding inter-
rogation light &
bond himself as is fitting
seeing how he acts
as a representative
of colonialism
imperialism
& albeit implicitly
white supremacy
so when the hypodermic
penetrates his cranium
to extract intel
vital to security
it still won’t erase
the centuries of damage
whether or not he squirms free
which of course he does
just in time to torpedo
the greenpeace plot &
head a one-man coup d’état
over a leftist leader
who’s making a din
about nationalizing
this & that though it
doesn’t matter what the cause
on a small island in the
caribbean its
white beaches safe once again
for bikinis &
martinis that are shaken
like people & never stirred
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