Someone should tell
Thomas
Paine
That
Liberty
Is Dead
Tell
Voltaire
Rousseau
Tell
Adams
Jefferson
&
Marilyn
Monroe
Tell Hamilton
Washington
And even say a
Hello to
Donald
Trump
Who
Doesn’t even
Know that
Hamilton
Isn’t that
Guy who
Invented
Toasters
Tell them
All that the
Revolution
Was all for nothing
And that
John Adams
& Jefferson
Who wrote up
That declaration
Proclaiming independence
Were joking
For the jets are
All waiting
At the airport for
The President
To lead them
Bravely across
The Delaware
Where glory & corporate
Scumbaggary
Awaits rich idiots
& not true men
Who shall
Most likely
Burn
With any luck
Painfully
In hell
R.M. Engelhardt is a poet, writer & author who’s work over the last 20 years has been published in such journals as Thunder Sandwich, Full of Crow, Rusty Truck, Writers’ Resist, Dry Land Lit, Rye Whiskey Review, Hobo Camp Review & many others. He currently lives & writes in upstate NY where he hosts a monthly open mic for poets called called “The School Of Night” His new book is entitled “Dark Lands” and is available through Whiskey City Press on LuLu, Amazon & at Barnes and Noble.