I Would Not Do Heaven's Work Well

Bruce Springsteen: Youngstown

The electorate collaborated
in its own disenfranchisement.
In the public’s view,
all politicians were corrupt,
all civil servants inept,
and every government
little more than a Mafia
plus an army.
Once the public
had been persuaded
to cut the state
down to size,
the real Mafias took over.

--John Feffer
Splinterlands

3/19/96