A REPLY TO MICHAEL ROWE

Who says that human understanding
Was ever big in our U.S.?
From when the Pilgrims made their landing,
What’s really triumphed is b.s.
The slaughter of the native nations,
The slaves that once lived worse than Haitians,
And others in our history
Who have been treated as debris
Have suffered for their elocution
Especially those on the left
Who argued capital was theft
Have always suffered persecution.
But liberals would minimize
These troubles to “free enterprise.”