Published on: 1/20/2016
Uncensored and Uncensured

I, too, have had a dream: a vision
in which the primacy of facts
assures a measure of precision
too seldom realized in acts

of faith. I'm hoping for a place
where all good deeds may go unpunished
and honesty does not disgrace
one's name; where no one is astonished

by anything a human being
expresses from the heart. Behold
the politician disagreeing
with party leadership, though told

he shouldn't do it. Also note
the unaffected novice writer
condemned for articles she wrote
because their tone was impolite— her

design was only to unravel
each twisted sequence of events.
When freedom-loving people travel
to parts unknown, they sleep in tents

erected on the content of
their character and not the color
of anybody's skin. They love
the texture of an honest dollar

held jauntily between their fingers
in sight of envious collec-
tivists, and how its odor lingers,
not quite politically correct.