restless dogs
want outside at 3AM
cool air
© Rachel Green July 2025
White Right-wing men now rue the fateful day
they earnestly believe was better than before
the advent of the right to vote and equal pay;
when slavery became abhorrent and when war
was fought upon such bloody fields that men
would die for nothing more than ten more yards
of clay and muck defended unto death and then
retaken by the other side like cards
upon a table in a Big Boy's club
where class was deemed a birth right and no upstart dick
might from some clever whim a fortune rub
and show his morning face and take the Mick.
When Men were Men in powdered wigs and stockinged legs
made all the rules and pulled each other's pegs.
© Rachel Green July 2025
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