“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want
and deserve to get it good and hard.”—H.L. Mencken
I bet you ten will get you twenty
Men wiser than I have said
The pursuit of liberty starts
As innocently
As a child wanting
What it cannot have,
And ends with it
Having what
It doesn’t need;
Indeed, most
Of the time, it feels
It just doesn’t
Know what it wants
Or needs, then gets it
Good and hard
In the gut when
Least expected,
Its entrails found lacking,
While knowing bloody butchers
Lick their chops in the end.
