by Zev Shanken
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In the year 2045 my great grandson will ask
what it was like when people really believed
they were in charge if they watched the news,
called in C-Span, and voted.
Well, son, I’ll say, you’ve read about when
everyone in Europe knew their place in
Christendom and thanked God
for giving life meaning?
Yes, grandfather. The Dark Ages.
Well, son, that’s what it was like.
Only in our day we had History
and thanked our Founding Fathers.
Did you pray?
We voted.
what it was like when people really believed
they were in charge if they watched the news,
called in C-Span, and voted.
Well, son, I’ll say, you’ve read about when
everyone in Europe knew their place in
Christendom and thanked God
for giving life meaning?
Yes, grandfather. The Dark Ages.
Well, son, that’s what it was like.
Only in our day we had History
and thanked our Founding Fathers.
Did you pray?
We voted.
Zev Shanken’s two full length books Memory Tricks (2016) and If I Try to be Like Him, Who Will be Like me? (2019) are available on Amazon. The New Verse News has published three of his poems in the past.