The Americans Are Due to Invade

The Roman circus
is in town,
and it's being led
by Uncle Sam.

Well, that's
someone's
sentiment, and I
don't buy it.

The world is led
by countries
that feed it,
and that's true
throughout history.

If America is Rome,
then so be it,
but it's no
empire
and those
who believe the myth
of its perfect past,
are the real fools,
the barbarians at the gate.

True, the Greatest
were at the beginning
(not last century, Tom),
but that's because
we allowed their
vision to be born,
before we began
a systematic effort
to dismantle that
engine
and allow
mediocrity and mistrust
to rule, as it has
for most of the last
two centuries.

The American barbarians
rant and they rave
like true imbeciles,
and they fail
to appreciate
what it is
that's been
happening.

That's a much more fun story
for another day.

But in the meantime,
look out, it's we
who invade.