So, where do you want me to go today?
What is that paradise where I must go?
What is it that I must reach for today?
Where is it that I want to go today?
What is it that I want to see today?
What is it that I want to hear today?
What is it that I want to say today?
© 2000 Bruce V. Bracken
Back to the grand, ancestral hardscrabble?
Back among the unquestioning rabble?
Back to before the supercomputer?
The lost pride of the chimney de-sooter?
That stress-free, blind obedience to kings?
To Caesar's Lutecian mosquito stings?
Not to the feudal serf's muddy Eden!
Nameless, faceless, starving and plague-ridden!
The Bourgeois rise up in Revolution!
The IRS closed as restitution!
"No more Income Tax! Leave us all alone!"
Hands off, Caesar, never touch what I own!"
My mind, life, and gold I take back today!
Let's tell Ellsworth where he can go today!
