In Yesterday's Lecture Poem by RIC BASTASA

yesterday i gave you
the president
of this country
and tell you
she is the strongest person
of our earth
and how she got the
royal prerogatives
of dishonesty

she is
dishonest but we keep her that way
to fulfill her task
of keeping us alive
and you complain
as a citizen

dare her not
on the yoke of her power she knows
perfectly the spot
where to butcher you like
a pig
or a chicken
or a duck
or a dog
or a turkey

inside our democratic prisons
we vote
for our death and annihilation
and she
holds the seal and she signs her name

mind you
after i have delivered the last lines
you say you begin
how not to understand power