justice deferred

Saad Hariri knows Assad full well

'though justice in this world is looking bleak.

Bashar deserves a special place in Hell

for blowing up Prime Minister Rafik.

'Though Mehlis nailed his assets to the wall

the Syrians demur to give a hoot

The playing-field is theirs, as is the ball,

from Kurdistan to beaches in Beirut.

The Russians grant him Syria, alone

with military hardware, not just words.

He'll live another season on the throne

and spend it murdering n-thousand Kurds.

The day that Putin leaves, and takes his thugs,

Assad's whole family hangs, and the world shrugs.

revenge

Hariri's back, Beirut can speculate
what had allayed the fear that made him quit.
Hezbollah's still a martial pseudo-state
that keeps a list of enemies to hit.
Assad--who whacked Rafiq--is still at large.
It takes no genius to connect the dots.
but now, his capo Putin's taken charge
Bashar may not be free to call the shots.
Saad, himself, may answer to Riyadh;
the Lebanese arrangement's byzantine
its linkages are only known to God
our spies do what they can, from what they glean.
Assad's a fool to stick to the old tune
Hariri thinks himself the star of 'Dune'.

...some to abhorrence

Saad Hariri knows Assad full well
'though justice in this world is looking bleak.
Bashar deserves a special place in Hell
for blowing up Prime Minister Rafik.
'Though Mehlis nailed his assets to the wall
the Syrians demur to give a hoot
The playing-field is theirs, as is the ball,
from Kurdistan to beaches in Beirut.
The Russians grant him Syria, alone
with military hardware, not just words.
He'll live another season on the throne
and spend it murdering n-thousand Kurds.

 The day that Putin leaves, and takes his gang,
we'll shrug to see Assad's whole family hang.