Look @w@y Poem by bill costley

“The Republican Party is living through the late-mannerist phase of that (Reagan) revolution, fuelled less by ideas than by resentments.”
-David Remnick: Annals of the Presidency: GOING THE DISTANCE, On and off the road with Barack Obama (New Yorker, Jan.27,2014, p.41)


Still wrapped within the Land o'Cotton,
striking its long-ago struck heroic pose,
standing tall for family values petrified
in grey stone in the postbellum South,
their grey slacks sharp, their golden
codpieces bursting with pride, their
thin smiles rise to sneers held highly
above lushly blooming womanhoods.
Look away! Look away! Way away.

(V V Santa Clara CA,0? FEB 2014) v5
(03 FEB 14, Santa Clara CA) v5