Friday, December 29, 2017

No. 237: Future Perfect — New Year's 2028, a verse for our President's term #3

Back in the old days
(remember them?),
when we were governed by laws
not by men.
Before nationwide systemic legal pollution
there was this thing. . .the Constitution?
You can still see it in its glass case.
(Don't get too close, it sprays Mace in your face.)

The old Constitution had a few failings
guns were not mentioned until an amendment
and it didn't say nearly enough about God.
Which was odd.
Everyone knows we're a Christian nation.
Always have been. 
Since the Creation.

A renewed Constitution was our solution
with businesses enshrined as divinely inspired
the idea of unions completely retired
and, as in our Bible, slavery required
to prevent lower orders attempting to cheat,
they have to work if they want to eat.
If shelter and food are what you crave,
if you don't have a job, we make you a slave
or provide you with an early grave.

And keeping with founding fathers' intent,
voting's only for owners, not those who rent.
Owners, what's more, of considerable wealth
who of the population make up (maybe) a twelfth.
Keeping it real with the founders again
these voters are, naturally, only white Christian men.
And since we can predict how good people vote,
we don't need elections and what those promote:
rule by the ignorant, the unemployed,
unhappy minorities, the neurotic annoyed,
who, sad to say, still find a way
despite voting restrictions to ruin our day.
Elections are bound to cause nothing but strife
therefore we declared Mike Pence Leader for Life.

The Atlantic: God’s Plan for Mike Pence
Will the vice president—and the religious right—be rewarded for their embrace of Donald Trump?