This Is the Story of How We Begin To Remember

We hardly remember the truth Victims of the Great Forgetting We hardly recognize that history is popular culture A screenplay of the past written by the victor Just look at Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of Independence With his quill scribing the words, "All men are created equal." We hardly think of him slinking back to his slave plantation Grabbing one of his African slave mistresses and having his way with her His love puppet Of which he had a harem My ninth grade teacher (whom had tenure) whispered from the side of his face The only thing Columbus discovered Was those people he called Indians Which we now call Native Americans were savages in the sack And the only thing he brought back from the New World was syphilis We hardly look at the big picture which is that we are destroying ourselves We cannot continue to keep living the way we are living And not expect civilization to collapse We are so short sighted We hardly see history repeating itself We are Rome And quite sadly Nixon is our Nero Hardly a hero It won't be long before The clock strikes zero By: Joseph DeMarco