The Topiary Governor Gardens
And so Texas creeps its Kudzu
Across the panhandle
Smothering life with claims of life
That the great and native Cyprus
Should be proud to whither
That lesser leaves can claim
The one true light
So too a nation chokes
On theocratic weeds
Shaped to resemble
The ideals they suffocate
The divine right of kings
Becomes the fool’s presumption
Democratic dynasties belie
The roots of Pater’s power
And the new Caesar
Anointed for the promise
Of the circus and the dead
Presumes another role
Sending plagues to far off lands.
He hardens the hearts of leaders.
He claims their first born.
The planes do not Passover
That the blood of nations can be spilled
For the blood of earth
For the veins of industry
A weed begins smothering the air
And blanketing the poles with the hot
Breath of billions
In the microcosm of a Florida Bar
Sea levels have already begun to rise.
Where two men may not share a raft
But kill to keep their own.
And the brother Shepard leads his sheep
Not to pastures, but to slaughter.
Jeb proves that he is Able
Thus his sibling’s name is Cain
So will history mark him
For such deeds as his must stain