RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
The Elder
(for Noam Chomsky)
His long white beard is full and untamed
(like his spirit and his voice)
As if he hasn’t been out of the house
Since the pandemic set in
He lives a life of solitude now
Alone with his intellect
Alone with his books
Alone with his writing
Alone with his thoughts
He is an observer of real politics
He has an ear for the truth
He has an eye for propaganda
He has a nose for bullshit
He tells you how it is
Without concern for how you take it
He’s heard it all seen it twice
And taken it in stride
He wrote the book on modern politics
And principled dissent
When the old man talks people listen
So listen to him now
Listen when he tells you
The man in the Oval Office
Is the greatest threat to civilization
And survival in the history of the species
Listen when he says without hesitation
Worse than Hitler
Worse than Mussolini
Worse than Stalin
Worse than Genghis Khan
Worse than Mao Tse-Tung
Look at the sincerity in his eyes
And in the lines of his face
A man without reason to lie
He has no horse in the race
Listen and believe
The hack attack is back. Why? Fear of free speech is fundamental to authoritarianism.
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