#100peoplepoems part 30: Dennis

  
The beast still roars
Red-faced and raging.
Uncensored, uncompromised
Always upstaging
The slick and the sly
Meeting every evasion
With blunt force truth.
This war he’s been waging
For forty six years
No nearer cessation.
Old comrades long gone
And his body is aging
But the beast still roars,
Red-faced and raging.