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The Thirties, the Honest Decade,
When the Depression made the US nation
Face its ragged heart and wretched soul.
The Obama Era, the rotten eight years
When the US nation let racism,
The feral cat, out of the bag again
And refused to face its ragged heart
And wretched soul, and let them fester
Like a million dreams deferred so long
They colored the land with blood
Spurting from myriad wounds inflicted
By AK-47 or Glock 9,
And now it’s time to choose whose
Name will label the next four or eight
Years, which flawed candidate
Is toxic enough to scare the US
Nation into facing its wounded fate,
Its ragged heart, its wretched soul.
George Held, a regular contributor to The New Verse News, has a new book out from Poets Wear Prada, Culling: New & Selected Nature Poems.
