I Hear America Screaming
(Inspired by Walt Whitman)
I hear America screaming, the varied lies I daily hear,
Those of politicians, each one singing their own tune for each and themselves alone,
And in the background;
The soldier crying as the doctor measures his amputee leg,
The businessman singing as he makes his fortune off others misfortunes and then sails off & away to the Bahamas,
The single mother asking what she shall feed her starving children, praying every night
The old dying man mumbling, sleeping on the park bench, with no place left to go
The last animals dying as they breathe in the toxic fumes as they fall from the trees and wires
The union man’s song, the blue collar worker on his way in the morning,
Just to find the factory closed down
The beautiful singing of the daughter, or of the young wife taking care of her mother in her final days because she couldn’t afford a hospital at home
Each American singing what belongs to him or her and to none else, and never believing in sharing
For this day is what belongs to the day—the night always another beginning
Truth screaming with open mouths against an America in it’s very last glories and days
~ R.M.
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R.M. Engelhardt is a poet, writer and author who over the last two decades has published over 16 books of poetry including "Nod" "Logos" "Alchemy" & "The Last Cigarette: The Collected Poems of R.M. Engelhardt. The founder of the Upstate NY organization Albany Poets & the Annual Poetry Celebration The Albany Word Fest he has through his ideas & visions helped to contribute a large amount of advocacy and creativity to the Spoken Word~Poetry Capital District scene and is the former host of the long running readings Vox, Propaganda, Listen & currently is creating a new resurrection of one of the area's most well known open mics for poetry and spoken word THE SCHOOL OF NIGHT in Troy, NY held on the last Wednesday evening of each month at the incredible nightclub/speak easy bar THE BERLIN IN TROY NY. His writing has also been published by many journals such as The Rye Whiskey Review, Red Fez, Rusty Truck, Sure! The Charles Bukowski Newsletter, Thunder Sandwich, The Hobo Camp Review, Full of Crow, on the Outlaw Poetry Network & in many many others.
Look for his books "WHERE THE PEOPLE'S VISION PERISHES 2020" "DARK LANDS (2019 on LuLu, Amazon & At Barnes and Noble) The Resurrection Waltz, 2012 ( Infinity Press) & "COFFEE ASS BLUES & OTHER POEMS" ( 2018 Alien Buddha Press 2018) " DarkLands" 2019 & "Where There Is No Vision" 2020 and his new books, "WE RISE LIKE SMOKE" (2021) & Of Spirit, Ash & Bone (2022) all available on Amazon.com
He is also the Editor of the small independent poetry press DeadMansPressInk.
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