Dream Song 105: As a kid I believed in democracy: I

As a kid I believed in democracy: I

'saw no alternative'—teaching at The Big Place I ah

put it in practice:

we'd time for one long novel: to a vote—

Gone with the Wind they voted: I crunched 'No'

and we sat down with War & Peace.

As a man I believed in democracy (nobody

ever learns anything): only one lazy day

my assistant, called James Dow,

& I were chatting, in a failure of meeting of minds,

and I said curious 'What are your real politics?'

'Oh, I'm a monarchist.'

Finishing his dissertation, in Political Science.

I resign. The universal contempt for Mr Nixon,

whom never I liked but who

alert & gutsy served us years under a dope,

since dynasty K swarmed in. Let's have a King

maybe, before a few mindless votes.