These farming folk
descendents of the immigrants
who were the first to plough
the prairie earth
who taking for themselves the native name
sent the Kansa packing to Oklahoma
these more recent dwellers
on the land
patriots, believers in America
voted nine out of ten
for the homegrown Mussolini
who's mascaraded as our president
these past four years
and having followed his example
and rejected masks
as an affront
to their God-granted freedom
they've now lost parents
grandparents and elders
bedrock of the community
and are in mourning for their loss

I suppose these rural Kansans
thought their isolation
would protect them
from the Covid as it had
from the madness
of the coastal cities
where lesbian and gay are seen
as something normal
where Democrats conspire
to turn the country
into a Marxist factory

Sad losses
sad to have been so mislead
by TV adds and by a government
already so mistrusted
and by politicians
who care more for their jobs
than for truth or our democracy

Now that this plague is killing
some American on average
every forty seconds
we will see
if the science that's been so maligned
these past few years
though not by doctors
or health professionals
can with their help
begin to turn the tide