TWILIGHT'S LAST 'GLEANING'
By the dawn’s early
light it suddenly came to me,
that America’s best
days were behind her.
It isn’t the media
per say,
or the government
shut down exactly,
or even that dreck of
idiocy that seems to pass
for mass
entertainment these days.
At least…not
individually.
Yet, the cumulative
effect has been the same,
heaping steaming
excrement on all sides,
A cultural mindset
having lost its guiding light.
What principles are
these?
Where does the
constitution stand?
Not at 1600
Pennsylvania Avenue,
when the man in
charge
and the one upstairs
are not of the same
faith…
in one nation, indivisible
under God
with mercy and
justice for all.
Oh beautiful, the
spaciously unemployed,
these amber waves turned
gray,
the ship of fools
having set sail six years before.
Uninspired times
breed contempt for the whole.
Dirty little backroom
politicos
scratch for their
share,
the crust of bread,
however
maggot-infested,
still desirable to
none at all.
When did it get so
bad?
Where did it all go
wrong?
And who should lay
claim
To the pit of the
elders?
Not I, dear friend.
Nor he or she, the
harried Reid
or Nan’ Pelosi.
The country’s gone to
the dogs,
the mutts are
slumming,
and any vote will do.
But do what, you ask?
And when, for we...
the people don’t eat in
the long run.
People can’t see when
the road is long
and the sun has set
on America’s empire-building days.
When nothing gets
done,
and compromise is
code
for entrenched
principles,
they damage the very
fabric of democracy,
I promise you this -
With a sickening
twist,
When special interests
are ahead of a democracy,
Hush-a, hush-a, we
all fall down.
The grand experiment
at an end
stirring the muck
with the mire.
Because the model is
gone, you see.
…and who can we
emulate now?
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