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a resolution was proposed

and carried with near

unanimous support

to outlaw decoys,

those quisling quackers,

web-foot weasels

siren-singing death-dealing

traitors to the flocks,

near unani-

mous, I say;

there were a few votes nay,

but when challenged,

the offending delegates,

those disgraceful dissenters,

spoke not,

but floated aimlessly

in garish splendor,

in all,

a rather wooden response.




David C. Kopaska-Merkel won the 2006 Rhysling Award for a collaboration with Kendall Evans, edits Dreams & Nightmares magazine, and has edited Star*Line and several Rhysling anthologies. His poems have appeared in Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere. A collection, Some Disassembly Required, winner of the 2023 Elgin Award, is available from him at jopnquog@gmail.com.
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