Lawrence
Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
It Became Necessary to Destroy the Constitution to Save It
-as an unnamed army major in Viet-Nam did not say
When old Rip Van Me wakes up each morning he finds
A world
unlike the one when his nap began -
Who are these
angry faces on great screens?
Why are there
cracks in the Capitol dome?
Arrests and
deportations, mobs with clench’ed fists
Grim armored vehicles
patrolling our city streets
A presidential
advisor hurling Nazi salutes
Personal
loyalty checks within our surveillance state
When old Rip
Van Me wakes up each morning he finds
A nation of
madmen who have lost their minds
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