Oink
Razorbacks impromptu
Under the Circean wand of Reaction
In the marble stye at Little Rock,
Arkansas legislators have already squealed
with the porcine preference:
Don't let the sharecroppers take to Organization,
let them take to the woods and root for a living
with the wild hogs, rooting at the site of Com-
monwealth College, rooting, an ultimate cross-
breed of homohogs rooting where once stood the
Museum of Social Change.
Oink,
Away back into the future,
Oink,
Drove of these ultra amurkuns feeding also among
the forested ruins of Little Rock-
Oink, oink,
So literally
Getting to the root of the matter.
Safe from Bolshevism,
Lo, one halcyon homohog
Perched overrunningly atop a strange pyramid
and looking down,
Trying to wonder for the moment,
Oi, oi, ok-a-ugh,
What the hell
It's all about
(At a place once called Monte Ne
In a region once known as Arkansas) -
As the jerky micturation flows
Not even with contempt
Down that sealed pyramid containing Harvey's
records of a civilization which had to be
sacrificed because of one book entitled Das
Kapital ...
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