Guest Poet: The Frat Boy’s Legacy

And now another gem from TMV’s favorite artist of verse, Michael Silverstein, aka Wall Street Poet:

The Frat Boy’s Legacy

A country…
Whose polity is fractured
With divides he turned to chasms;
One the world now views with horror
Waiting for its next dumb spasms.

A country…
Hooked on public private spending
Foolish short-lived mindless benders;
Turning all to debtor addicts
Prey to whims of foreign lenders.

A country…
Where common sense once trumphed
Clearing all the paths we trod;
Now a place where sense gets sidelined
By bluff jingo, one man’s God.

A country…
Where once all parties recognized
The same good creed, democracy;
Replaced by a new ‘rithmatic
“There’s one decider, and that’s me.”

A country…
That will look in future eras
At how frat boy played its fears;
At his reckless run of failures
With disgust and anguished tears.

Copyright 2007 Michael Silverstein