Thursday, March 3, 2022

Eminent Domain

 Royal-Latin-speaking carpetbagger

Long-gaveled hobo

Top-hat wearing Scrooge

in threadbare Tweed

bumps down the cobblestone road

in a rust-bucket, backfiring old smoke machine.

He stops, pulls the cranky parking brake 

Surveying the bucolic, muddy, Town, he declares,

"Mine!"