Paul Revere Abbreviated

A poetic re-write for our time

Listen, my children, and you shall hear

A tail of the current Paul Reveres

T’was, in the Summer of ’24,

Just a few short months before

All of the people would finally see

The sum of all fears would come to be.

Despite all the warnings throughout the land

From Orwell to Huxley, from Rothbard to Rand

The People, distracted by circus and bread

Just couldn’t get it inside their heads

That the plans of the Bad Guys, the thoroughly wicked,

Were coming together just as predicted.

Still, the warnings continued from podcasts and vids

To leaders and parents and even their kids, that

“Hard times are coming like you’ve never seen!”

But the people preferred their 50” screens.

With great perseverance, the new Paul Revere

Kept writing and speaking midst critics and jeers

Despite some success

And a smidgen of luck

The people told Paul

To shut the f--k up.

BW