Quarrel with Squirrels as Rhetoric ~ Sunday, May 17, 2026

One Nation, indivisible, except
now when no one is looking, under God
even He, like Justice, turns a blind eye

Nothing but the Gold Standard to accept
as, without principles, changes the law
to imagine, in a bog, digging sod
if the poet saw his father, goodbye
onion field, hello murder and true crime
nothing but the changeable, a crab claw

until history shows an ugly face
no one cares unless it makes them angry
divided by ideology, grace
enters to sweep away the ghosts, hungry
relatively unsettled by deep time

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