Torch to feet blessed
sunder and sundry
never would egress
from holdover country
I’m a second dog
jettisonned, red-blooded
American, neck-deep in
medicine, that syringe inoculates
with foul play and grenadine,
judge, jury, and history,
hotels and mezzanines,
would you take my penumbral vaccine?
You’ll carry out my legacy,
fight and draw steel for me,
validate my heresy,
take the trash out back and dome it.
Take your research labs and shove it,
grants and fellowships will fatten up your budget,
silhouette of a minuteman loading up his musket,
Hartwell and Breakheart, get out before the dusk
it’s centuries of this.
Raising up a flag from the seventeen hundreds,
few were quakers, most were of the puritan persuasion,
a small town makes a chronal bed that I lay in,
and I guess I’m staying,
torch to feet blessed,
locked inside my chest,
my inheritance will rest,
just infer the rest.
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