WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS

Our Founders "held to be self-evident",

Will our "One Nation, indivisible, under God"

Dissolve in anarchy and nihilism:

The State of the Apostate?

Is it destined to be replaced by

Another Nation? Some other God?

Conceived in hypocrisy

Under the crushing burden of Original Sin.

Dedicated to the proposition:

That Life is 8 to 5 against.

That success is such a long shot

They have taken it off the board.

And that all men are created equal,

Although some of them

Are a lot more equal

Than we are.

When all of our "Inalienable Rights"

Have been alienated,

All of our possibilities

Will be covered by contingency plans

And imprisoned beneath

The almighty Bell Curve.

Then, we will all be illegal and alien,

And so very far from home.

Too busy struggling to fit our wiggly selves

Into the square holes

That will be our humble portion

To wonder about the infinite Universe

Our statistical analyses

Have not factored in.

Perhaps then we shall have

Another scheme of things,

Espoused by popular demand,

Or Statistical Process Control,

Or Poisson Distributions,

When our sorry electorate

Exercises its Spastic Mandate.

The New World.

The Compromised Land.

Where the Baboon will be master

That Monsters may be begotten.

Los Angeles: The Great Metrollopis Of The West

April '92