Promoting freedom’s flame to distant lands
Sparking transgender fires to backwards folk,
IF they obey the Pentagon’s commands
Or lose the loans they signed for (what a joke);
Progress and stability up in smoke
In the name of Savior America;
Preaching fake democracy as a cloak
For Malthusian esoterica—
Don’t know what that means? Then go look it up
And show us that you are not merely slow,
Drinking from your low-information cup.
As we bomb villages to dust—hello. 
And then pave it over to build a mall
Paid for with your taxes . . . this is your call.

PROMPT #27:  write an “American sonnet”.