January 25th, 2017
A Great and Wide Wall
Clean as a whistle
Built entirely of bricks
Stained red, white, and blue
Oh! the wall will keep
Out
Oh! the wall will keep
In
One day the wall’s colors
Will fade and turn grey
And one day the wall’s mortar
Will dissolve to fine powder
And one day our descendents
Will laugh as they curse us
For leaving nothing to drink
Save their own peppery tears