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The Curtain Falls


The tyranny of the majority,

democracy oversold

 

The power of the people to cut and paste,

 fat cats in control 

 

‘Oh Ye Of Little Faith’ we are,

like rats inside a maze

 

Our government serving to best itself,

entitlement ablaze

 

The curtain rises for one last act,

this play now eons old

 

As despots steal the final scene

—where freedom’s bought and sold

 

(St. David’s Pennsylvania: March, 2021)

 

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