What Rough Beast | Poem for May 5, 2018

Jonathan Rentler
battle for grace

the poor
tools to use
to build your towers
where you & yours sit
above the wars &

the world
filled with beasts
for you and yours to eat
& land to wholesale

by god
the crackerjack prize
you and yours summon
so sheeple baa baa below
the roar of private jets

 

Jonathan Rentler is the author of the chapbook Times Square Words# 1 (Yonkers International Press/Blurb 2017). His work has appeared in LOLA, Babbling of the Irrational, Fickle Muses, I-70, Ganymede, Unlikely Stories 2.0, and Midnight Muse.

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