04-15-2023, 07:19 AM
President’s Day, Traditional
The holiday once celebrated
on February twenty-second
is now extinct, subsumed
by envious charlatans
(aided by our greed
for three-day weekends)
trying to turn their dross
into gold by ennobling it with
George Washington as if
he were a Philosopher’s Stone,
not merely the Hero who steered
a straight course avoiding
both Cromwell and Napoleon.
No king of his time,
it was agreed,
was fit to be his valet–
nor most presidents
of ours.
The holiday once celebrated
on February twenty-second
is now extinct, subsumed
by envious charlatans
(aided by our greed
for three-day weekends)
trying to turn their dross
into gold by ennobling it with
George Washington as if
he were a Philosopher’s Stone,
not merely the Hero who steered
a straight course avoiding
both Cromwell and Napoleon.
No king of his time,
it was agreed,
was fit to be his valet–
nor most presidents
of ours.
Non-practicing atheist