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| Presidential Poster by Edward Steed, The New Yorker, March 3, 2016 |
When did America
Grow so full of hate
It embraced a cold
Bloodthirsty man?
And when did the purchase
Of guns grow as common
As buying a card
For a sweetheart?
And when did it start
To despise anyone
Whose face didn’t
Mirror its own?
The answer is that
It was only sleeping
In a coffin we
Foolishly thought sealed
Richard Schnap is a poet, songwriter and collagist living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His poems have most recently appeared locally, nationally and overseas in a variety of print and online publications.