“[I]f there’s one thing I know about the American people, it’s this: When it has mattered most, they have never let this nation down.” (Joe Biden, The Atlantic)
But hardly near the tonest,
The cause of illness is well-known:
America got dishonest.
The doctor said, “America
Is better than a conman,”
Holding its former health in awe,
But he is only one man.
The medical establishment
Has reached its own consensus,
As a condition by consent,
“What slanders recompense us.
“At any rate, paralysis
Seems unlikely to lessen:
A great frame laid to waste like this—
To see it is a lesson.”
But Dr. Biden shook his head,
“My heart of heart believes
Cures may be found, but—spirit dead—
Time will bring no reprieves.”
Mind you, it was no conman’s fault:
The poison self-ingested
Itself produced—no cause occult
Men’s own hearts got infested.
Honesty as a state of health
“Preventive medicine”
Maintains—slanders don’t come by stealth,
In broad view lies begin.