08/16/2012
VDARE.com doesn’t carry anything like as much poetry as it should.
Here, to remedy the deficiency, is a poem I wrote in 2007, "Slough On The Potomac":
Come, friendly bombs, fall on D.C.!
It’s not fit for humanity.
There’s nothing there but villainy.
Swarm over, Death!Come, bombs, and blow to kingdom come
Those pillared halls of tedium —
Hired fools, hired crooks, hired liars, hired scum,
Hired words, hired breath.Mess up this mess they call a town —
A seat for twenty million down
And rights to the incumbent’s crown
For twenty years.And get that lobbyist who'll spin
His case to congressmen, who'll win
Amendments, raking fortunes in
For racketeers.And smash his desk of polished oak
(Paid for by honest working folk
Toiling 'neath taxation’s yoke)
And make him yell.But spare the lesser worker bees,
Federal and private employees,
Working for meager salaries
In government Hell.It’s not their fault they cannot see
How power stifles liberty,
How citizens who once were free
Become enslaved.From childhood they've been raised to think
That federal power solves everything
They can no longer smell the stink
Of power depraved.Spare these folk; reserve your fire
For those who wallow in the mire —
That smug, smooth, chauffered, canting choir
Of puffed-up fools.Come, friendly bombs, fall on D.C.!
Leave it as it used to be:
Potomac winding to the sea
By tree-fringed pools.
It’s an imitation of a very famous (well, in England) poem by the late John Betjeman. It was posted on National Review Online for an hour or so, then the editors pulled it. What more recommendation do you need?
And it’s immigration-related!
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