Juneteenth - David Bean

[Larry Robinson]

Juneteenth


Know the enemy is in charge
and the exposer in chief is at large
and the presider of cruel justice
is orange haired Madame DJ DeFarge

So good to give up polarity
and see the victims of the systems
are you and me in history
wherever you happen to be

Celebrate the exposé
and make note of the failings
cast on both sides of the line
and know that party means faction
in this country of yours and mine

and counter to our law
we are making war by the score
on our children's credit card
creating victims in all directions
to which they shall pay evermore.

In sum
of parties, we need one
not of branding and division
scoring who lost, who won
but of e pluribus unum

	- David Bean