took control in a Chilean coup on this day,

deposing President Salvadore Allende,

whose own democracy was seen as in their way.

Some said this had the smell of CIA,

Dick Nixon, with his penchant for foul play,

was much opposed to any Marxist sway,

and friends of Cuba always had to pay.

It’s now been forty-eight years since the coup.

Allende wound up dead. They don’t know who.

Chile had gone democratic back in thirty-two.

Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina and Peru

in the sixties watched as military overthrew

elected governments as if they were a strain of flu.

Perhaps it was inevitable Chile would fall, too.

Keep this in mind as things unwind inside the U.S. zoo.