Sunday, February 2, 2020

IF WE. By R.M. Engelhardt


if we 
continue to

         Worship &

Kiss the
Fat assess of

         
         Money
         Icons
         Idiots
         
            &
         
         Elect them all


(Presidents)


Then
We get
What we all

         Deserve


( including our own deaths )





R.M. Engelhardt is an American poet and Writer who is the author of several books over the last two decades including Coffee Ass Blues & Other Poems, The Last Cigarette: The Collected Poems of R.M. Engelhardt, The Resurrection Waltz and others. His work has also been published by such journals as Retort, Red Fez, Rusty Truck, Sure! The Charles Bukowski Newsletter, Thunder Sandwich, Fashion For Collapse, 2nd Avenue, The Angry Poet, Winedrunk Sidewalk, Full of Crow, The Outlaw Poetry Network, The Rye Whiskey Review & in many others. His new book of poetry is entitled " Dark Lands" published by Whiskey City Press, 2019.

www.gentlemanoutsider.com 



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