lost & found in flyover country

mostly poems. published weekly.

No Kings

Shall we get our fair share of abuse today 
in this flyover town, my hands stained with
ink and it’s pouring down rain, is a protest
like a ballgame postponed on account of the
weather, shall we ask the first weathermen
which way the wind blows? The tools of the
laborer abandoned on the ground, the half-full
bushels left in the field, do we run with them
like wolves in a pack, like a stampede of
mustangs, who gets to call this place home?
From whom was it taken, to whom is it owed?
I have my banjo tuned to the people’s key,
can you tell me, what would Woody do?

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