Our dear democracy is dead.
Were you among its assassins?
Did you applaud the massacre
and cheer as democracy bled?
Does it even know it’s a corpse,
that it’s already in its grave?
After all, its flag still does wave
even though the flagpole has warped
to bear this banner of pirates.
O, how you preachers, colleges,
officers, bureaucrats, judges,
lawyers, editors love tyrants!
You, democracy’s assassins,
how you welcome the massacre!
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Duane Vorhees
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