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Does "The Fifty-First State" Mean "Conquest"?

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How I admire the phrase "fifty-first state":
So clean, so friendly, like a wide-open gate.
What kind of idiot would say no to that?
It's an ask to a wing-ding, a bright welcome mat!
Don's minded his PR guys this time around,
How is it enthusiasm doesn't abound?
.
He didn't say "conquer," not "invade" or "seize,"
He clear' holds no truck with "take over" or "squeeze,"
He merely invites to the American dream:
Recalling Canadians who daily scream,
"Why, I've made it big here, the market is vast.
If I'd stayed in BC, my star would have passed!"
.
Maybe some Canadians sense a raw deal,
Is Don really concerned for their common weal?
And maybe what's common will be broken in four:
East Canada, West Canada, one or two more,
'Cause it's much easier to divide and conq'
Than have all Canada bloc-vote like a bronc'.
.
Say what you like, our Don's returned with plans lain,
Four years in the wilderness not spent in vain,
And already you can see his strat' at work:
They boo our anthem and oft' our chain jerk
In companies, friendships, any cooperation,
For nothing flourishes like bad-neighboration.
.
To persuade, Don prefers the economic,
Far less messy than anything atomic,
But here Canucks give back as good as they get:
In oil, in feeds, in many-pronged eco-threat,
So ultimately Don must send in Marines,
That sand-and-shovel brigade of hare-brained schemes.

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