If you are a Republican, you won’t like this piece.  I respectfully suggest that you stop right here.  Thanks for your understanding.

Now that I am learning how to write poetry – free verse kind, I have taken the liberty of inserting some of that style in my “rhyming prose” pieces.  I have removed some of the constraints I used to write under, including the number of lines in a stanza and the rhyming scheme.

We claim to be a developed country
–  A shining city on a hill
Yes indeed, a city built atop the
bodies of innocent humans killed
as if they were the target of fire drill
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