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TWO POEMS by R. Riekki<br />
Author bio: Riekki has been a finalist for several screenplay competitions; an<br />
abbreviated list includes the Beverly Hills Screenplay Contest, Crimson Screen Horror<br />
Film Fest, Fantasmagorical Film Festival, The International Horror Hotel Film Festival,<br />
Marquee Lights Competition, Terror Film Festival, Cannes Screenplay Contest, and<br />
many more.<br />
The Pledge of Allegiant<br />
(Starring Shailene Woodley)<br />
I Pledge Allegiance to my rag and the Banana Republic for<br />
which we stand, one inflation, divisible, with Liberty University<br />
and Justice: Tween Clothing & Fashion for Girls for all.<br />
At a signal from the Dictator, the cleaners, in odored rank, hands<br />
on mops, deface the floor. Another signal is given: every cleaner<br />
gives the rag a paramilitary salute of right arm straightened and<br />
inclined upwards with the hand open and palm down. Standing<br />
thus, all repeat together, auf Deutsch, slowly, Trumpily, “I<br />
Pledge allegiance to my rag and the Banana Republic for which<br />
we stand, one inflation, divisible, with Liberty University and<br />
Justice: Tween Clothing & Fashion for Girls for all.” At the<br />
words “to my rag,” the right hand goes to the floor, gracefully,<br />
palm palming Palmolive with the rag and remains in this gesture<br />
‘till the end of suffrage, whereupon all hands with Allstate<br />
immediately drop to their suicide.<br />
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