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Monday, November 26, 2007

ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA

for Upton Sinclair


by David LaBounty


there were anarchists
and socialists just as

there was blood
in the hearts and
in the streets and

the poor got richer even though

the rich stayed rich.

later.

now.

the rich are getting richer
and I'm getting poorer

and the network news has kept
all the anarchists and socialists

far,

far away.


David LaBounty's recent poetry has appeared in Dogmatika, Word Riot, Pemmican, Unlikely 2.0, Outsider Writers and other journals.