by Fred Longworth
When the President said,
"Support our tropes,"
America’s dumbest poets
grabbed red wheelbarrows
& began pushing, certain
that in the pans, beneath
a ragged layer of sand, lay
good Christian democracy.
Klutzy me! My wheel
barrow tipped on its side:
Under a thin crust of bullshit,
a heavy body bag.
Fred Longworth restores vintage audio components for a living. His poetry has been published in California Quarterly, Stirring, The Pacific Review, Pearl, and many others.