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The Pied Piper of Laggards

7/20/2017

 

They didn’t want a woman,
    They didn’t want a black,
But waited for an omen
    To take their country back— 

A conman with no manners
    Upon the scene appeared,
One of the greatest fanners
    Of fantasy, and wierd.

“Lay down your weary burdens,
    And let me think for you;
With no more ‘beg your pardons’
    Your greatness I’ll renew.”

His words fell down like manna.
    “I can’t believe my ears,
Amongst flora and fauna
    My greatness reappears.”

Alas, these motley laggards
    Had never been so great,
A crew of boastful braggarts
    (Today they wait, and wait).

Their greatness only ever
    Existed in a dream,
As bleacher bums feel clever
    To have a winning team.

The black man, he persisted,
    The woman, she lived on,
But fantasies the mist did
    Envelop, and were gone.

They never knew their folly,
    Or knew what they had lost,
But chuckled “I’m so solly,”
    A Rubicon being crossed.

We laugh at our ancestors,
    “How could they be so dumb”
When even the court jesters
    Predicted, crumb by crumb,

“The road away from virtue
    Will never make you great,
But waylay and subvert you,”
    Yet still they wait, and wait.

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