I live in a democracy :
It isn’t perfect, no, but–well–
It’s good enough, perhaps, for me.
Where crime and vice and infamy
Are smiled upon, and thrive pell-mell:
I live in a democracy.
The land of opportunity ,
Where all the onportunists swell:
“It’s good enough, perhaps, for me —
“A land where a minority
Can buy the rest of them, and sell–
I live in a democracy!”
The rich grow richer easily;
The poor are just allowed to dwell;
It ‘s good enough, perhaps, for me.
Why don’t I move?–Well, that would be
From frying-pan straight into Hell;
I live in a democracy:
It’s good enough, perhaps, for me….
by Ray Romine Thursday, January 25, 1945
