Once a year at least
the Council For Decency
ravages the town
tearing new ideas
off library shelves,
padlocja celluloid visions
so the children won’t see
what their parents do;
strips museum walls
of anything with cleavage
or gonadal esprit
Once a year at least
they parade their rusty cavalcade,
flags snapping for life and liberty,
past alleys that once were deer runs,
past sewers that once were streams,
past;
FIFTY BILLION HAMBURGERS SOLD
GUARANTEED USED CARS
FOURTH OF JULY SALE-O-RAMA
SHOPPING CENTER COMING SOON
and all their other obscene signs