Watchtower

[dukealien]

Watchtower
 
Call me Jehovah.
 
I will make a nation of you
who would knock on doors
'till the day
all the houses are emptied.
 
But you're lookin' and lookin' and lookin'
when the beast is in Brooklyn.
 
The beast is in Brooklyn.

Googling turns up the reference

(Jehovah's Witnesses HQ in Brooklyn sold, moving to upstate, to Jared Kushner's real estate company).  Some might say the poem is calling Kushner "the beast," or his father-in-law, but what's poetry for if not to speak truth to power... indirectly

.  Glad I don't live where everything's political, though it's starting to seep into flyover country now, too.

Nicely assembled, if a bit opaque without the Google.