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Minneapolis, MN 55407
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Phone: (612) 722-6612
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Walter Lockhart, Pastor
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The Pentagon By Douglas Rosenquist The Pentagon, that five-sided bastion of our collective fears, at its wits’ end to once-and-for-all annihilate all its enemies, decides to shoot the fiscal moon with a record-shattering budget of skatey-eight bazillion trillion dollars for the creation of the Ultimate Weapon. The Pentagon; fronted by four menacing apocalyptic horses, their hooves thundering and dusting the dirt; their nostrils flaring, ears pinned back, eyes glazed and crazed; puts out project bids to the best weapons geniuses money and might can seduce, with the one criterion: The Ultimate Weapon must neutralize all enemies of the state, sparing none. The Pentagon, the day the delivery truck alas arrives, festoons itself with flags and balloons of red and white and blue. Military bands blare brassy marches; five-star generals stand erect, gold-braid epaulets protecting their broad shoulders, shining seas of medals their puffy barrel chests. The Pentagon; with pinstriped politicos in power suits shaking hands and glade-smiling one another, their diamond-studded teeth glistening in the noonday sun. Red-robed bishops with cone-head hats and brightly-polished staffs sign the cross as they mutter among themselves, “What a great day for God’s chosen.” The Pentagon, in its finest hour. A thousand lofty flocking folks, faces pregnant with anticipation, raptor beaks all pointing, beady eyes all staring at the truck as it rolls to a stop for a moment for all eternity. The Pentagon hawks gawk as the black canvas lifts, and to their utter constipation consternation, their blithering beaks aghast at the sight, of banquet tables fit for a feast beneath a 2,000 year-old banner with three long-forgotten words: Love Thine enemy. |
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