Oh My Country
Noel Heroux, William John Herome Mason
h my country
of blood and lust
of heart and pain
death and rust
of shining sea
and golden plain
of poison piss
and covered reign
of hope and pride
and filament
of theft and sly
embitterment
of ownership
of stolen thought
of reproduction
risk and rot
of riddles rife
with certainty
of selling joy
with heresy
oh my country
tis of thee
my children dream of
in their sleep
the boogeyman
the buttered bread
the hooligan
the color red
the blood that spills
on muddy streets
the ground the swells
the chickens feet
its more than one
can ever say
oh my country
flags will fray
oh my country
you told me you belonged to me