George Washington, Barack Obama,
The Alpha and Omega
To the historic panorama
And presidential saga,
Of life in the democracy
Of these United States,
When citizens and thought were free
And men might choose their fates.
Alas, voters ejected this
In voting to abolish
Fair play and true analysis
For bluster public-brawlish.
When reasoned discourse got kicked out
(Or carried on a stretcher)
The mob raised its collective shout
Of Bully! Liar! Lecher!
But these were epithets of praise
And virtues for espousing,
The crowd with Justice parted ways,
Truth something for delousing.
The country (and the world perhaps)
Saw all right measure gone,
A closure to that line of chaps,
Obama, Washington,
And all the many in between
That served the Constitution
Imperfectly—some hardly keen—
Before its dissolution.
The dissolution of the law
Was voted in by men,
Who raised for subject their hurrah
Instead of citizen.
A tawdry end, to what was once
The “last best hope”—their freedom
Traded to have a proper dunce
Dishonorable to lead ’em.
The ways of Nature lumbered on
To human plight indifferent,
And human hubris soon was gone
Like bubbles effervescent.