The Party’s Over

Hal C. Clark

November 3, 2020

Time for you to go home and

let America restore order

You have invited fire, flood, and pestilence

 to visit our home          made

enemies of our friends

friends of our enemies

scoffed at our laws

            challenged our Constitution

Would you take away our future

while denying our past?

Find a new playmate

While we laugh at your tiny wall and try

to put this nation back

together again.

Hal C. Clark grew up during the Permian Basin oil boom in Odessa, Texas. He is a retired fourth grade teacher and a graduate of Texas A&M University. He has been published in several magazines and anthologies such as Langdon Review of the Arts, Red River Review, and Elegant Rage. Hal has published two collections of poems.