Showing posts with label Winter Amid the Alien Corn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Winter Amid the Alien Corn. Show all posts

Sunday, February 16, 2020

Winter Among the Alien Corn: Primary Elections - poem

Lawrence Hall
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poeticdrivel.blogspot.com
A variant appears in The Road to Magdalena, 2012

Winter Amid the Alien Corn: Primary Elections

Costumed in baseball caps to plagiarize
Plebeian brotherhood among the swains,
Beg-hopeful archons of The People pose
Occupy-smug among foam coffee cups

And this is said to be an apprenticeship
For sending planes to bomb some far-off land
And wisely for to rule a people lost
Among wide flat-screened images of porn

Now let us chant:

The whole world is laughing
The whole world is laughing
The whole world is laughing