Friday, January 20, 2017

Inauguration Day


  
In Washington the billionaires are toasting

With caviar and oysters in chilled vodka

Each other and their money and their coup

Damp and avaricious in black tie

In the lobby of the President's hotel.


I eat a peanut butter sandwich at the sink

And go outside to cut a few days' firewood

Ancient poems in the pocket of my coat

Having all I need among the trees and hoping

There's nothing here the wealthy really want.