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Sunday, January 04, 2015

LOYALTY TO THE BASE

by George Held






I am not a scientist
& the earth is flat.

I am not a scientist
& climate change is bunk.

I am not a scientist
& coal mining does not cause black lung.

I am not a scientist
& embryonic stem cells are off limits.

I am not a scientist
& the way to defeat ISIS is nucular.

I am not a scientist
& we need hydraulic fracturing.

I am not a scientist
But, some say, a bald-faced denier,
a loyal Republican liar.


George Held, a regular contributor to The New Verse News, has a new book out from Poets Wear Prada, Culling: New & Selected Nature Poems.