BY JAY WELLER
SHUTTERED BOX CARS
PASS RAILWAY STATIONS
RATTLE GOD’S STARS
AND ALL FOUNDATIONS
THE PROPHET’S TALL GUARD
ENSLAVES THE NATION
HIGH SCANDALS DROP HARD
UPON ALL CREATION
FIRST BUILD THE FENCES
THEN SEAL THE BORDERS
TIGHTEN HARD WRENCHES
UNDER GUISE OF ORDER
WHAT LAYS THE FOUNDATION FOR OUR WASTE?
THE UNWANTED HURRIED FROM THEIR PLACE
TO DISTANT CAMPS WHICH YOU SHALL NOT LOOK
DOCUMENTED IN SECRET BOOKS
THE GROUNDS UPON WHICH THE PROPHET FEEDS
DECLINING OPPORTUNITIES
THE EROSION OF ONE’S LIBERTIES
FEAR AND LUST, IGNORANCE AND GREED
A PEOPLE SCATTERED AND DISORDERED
THE PROPHET COMES WITH CROSS IN HAND
WRAPPED IN FLAG WITH GOLDEN STRANDS
MARSHALL LAW DECLARED ACROSS THE LAND
THE WRENCH IS GRINDING HARDER
ENEMIES FOREIGN DOMESTIC
TERRORISTS UNDEFINED INDEFINITE
AND TO THOSE WHO OPPOSE THE TYRANT’S CROOK
WILL BE SENT TO MEET THE WARDER
THE REST AWAKE AND BEGIN TO SEE
FROM THE RABID GUARD THEY MADLY FLEE
BUT BULLETS TEAR THEM TO THEIR KNEES
BEHIND THE FENCE THERE AT THE BORDER