ASPHYXIUM ZINE

Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Poem: 'Liberty Felled!' by Rich Orth

Liberty Felled!
© Rich Orth 12/06/2017

real surreal
cold wars old wars
cold sores..
Washington whores
Pay to play
fraying flag
fracking ...
collateral swag
hacking ...
bilateral phlegm
Ahem...ahem...amen
bow to my lord
my god...
how can we afford
to dream again
as nightmare
slips 'neath sheets
as we lay us down...
down to sleep
stocking hung with care
a whole 60,000
supplying the coal
for sinners...
evangelical...
for strippers...
angelical...
for boys and girls
debaced
for patriotism
defaced...
replaced with
I ...Me... Mine
Unrefined extremes
disposable dreams
swept under carpetbaggers
haggard old bastards
ruling in tyranny
oh say can you see
feel free to take a knee
for only their beliefs
perceived from texts...
so ancient...
antiquities written
by the hand of man...
frictional fiction
fanning the flames ..
flames of or HELL
as all true liberty is felled....
Lady hangs her head
Shamed into mediocrity
Flame extinguished....
Give me your tired...
your poor...
your huddled masses...
yearning to breathe free
Give me them... NO MORE!

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