WRITTEN AFTER READING JOHN HOLLANDER'S(1929-2013) 'LATE AUGUST ON THE LIDO'

At least the United States is over,

with a million deaths counting

and fascism's iron collar around

its neck only loosened, for now.

At least the United States is over,

the always broken dream, finally 

shattered, million shards cutting

its flesh, spikes in the iron collar.

At least the United States is over,

the Big Lie of four centuries dead

and the truth in mass graves and

neo- Jim Crow a biblical plague.

At least the United States is over,

burning forests the funeral pyres

of the City Upon The Hill, ashes

the American Dream in the dusk.

At least the United States is over,

Uncle Sam, an old chud with his

Blue Lives Matter -flag & AR-15,

tightening the spiked iron collar.

11.08.2021

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