By K.D. Taylor

(On five hundred Kentucky National Guard members summoned by a QAnon conspiracy theorist to counter-protest a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Louisville, and none of whom in fact ever appeared to do so.) 

National Guardsmen of Kentucky, fife
And drum now beckon you with solemn sound:
A Marxist movement grows, inviting strife,
While you, an unseen host, enveiled surround.
You red-pilled patriots to QAnon
Alert, much to the Deep State’s hot displeasure,
Like chariots of fire obscured are drawn
To face the foe, and act in countermeasure.
In Eli Eaton’s, as Elisha’s, sight
You stand arrayed like horses men mistook
For absent, though you marshalled for the fight,
As warring angels when most men forsook.
Let QAnon, therefore, its codes relay,
Still sure its marching orders we’ll obey!