The Ledge of Defiance

by Heath Brougher / September 13th, 2015

I pledge suspicious to the Fangs
of the Untied States of Abhorrica,
and to the Illusions with which it blands:
one nation, plundered, robbed, Oligarchal,
where hierarchy and mistrust are All.

Heath Brougher is the editor-in-chief of Concrete Mist Press. He was the recipient of the 2018 Poet of the Year Award and is a multiple Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee. He has authored twelve books, the most recent of which is Beware the Bourgeois Doomsday Fantasy (Sandy Press, 2024). Read other articles by Heath.

This article was posted on Sunday, September 13th, 2015 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.