Thomas Paine -An Englishman

Thomas Paine - an
Englishman 

Maybe the best
American

Long and well before
all the fat folks
who live there now

Spoke of national
institutions 
of churches whether
jewish christian or
muslim or other
nonsense

Schemes seeming to
him be no more than
human inventions,
set up to terrify
and enslave mankind
to monopolize for
power
Copyright © | Year Posted 2014

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