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    The Husbandman
    The Husbandman
    The Husbandman
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    The Husbandman

    By David Rosenfeld

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    With Magna Charta forgotten, the Declaration of Independence ignored, the Constitution distorted, and our liberties under the Bill of Rights imperiled; with central banking and fiat money under the Federal Reserve, with Congress a rubber stamp for an authoritarian presidency, and with legislated socialization of our private property; these poems may entertain the sympathetic readers possibly otherwise unvoiced disdain for a trend. Sometimes humorous, sometimes serious, sometimes vaguely hinting at other ideas, the general theme of the whole collection is best summed up by the climax of the short story included at the end.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateApr 29, 2013
    ISBN9781481747530
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    David Rosenfeld

    David Rosenfeld lives and works in Orange County, California. There, he participates in local poetry readings. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley.

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      HUSBANDMAN

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      DAVID ROSENFELD

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      © 2013, 2014 by David Rosenfeld. All rights reserved.

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      Published by AuthorHouse    06/16/2015

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      The Husbandman

      We Live in Temporary Times

      Nonbeliever (To a Trader)

      The Biggest Bubble

      Suspended Belief

      On Re-Reading Lysander Spooner Again, and Again

      For Fundamental Freedom Sonnet

      The Foxtail Pine

      Cultivate a Single Garden

      Albert J. Nock

      Jeffersonian

      Set the Foundation

      Another Vision

      Broken Man Returns

      Song of Infidelity

      For Benjamin Franklin

      Poor Rich Alm Knack

      Increasingly Worse It Grows

      By the Court of the New King (or, What Everyone Already Knows)

      The Rat & You

      Ludwig von Mises

      The Lantern in the West

      Thoughts Forbidden

      (Now Unhidden!)

      I Know What I Know

      The Peddler

      In Answer to Myself

      The Draft

      Anti-War Poem

      Liberal Sonnet

      Fantasy on a Theme

      Something Bubbling (or, One Man, One Vote)

      For the many, and the few, who have taught me

      THE HUSBANDMAN

      He saw some of it coming—

      The bust that follows boom—

      And weighed the likely outcome

      Of the impending doom.

      It was with trepidation

      That he boxed all his books

      And hunted in the forest

      For some sequestered nooks.

      At first it was his plan

      To squirrel them away;

      But then the bigger picture

      Dawned on him like day.

      A total, awful blackout,

      Just like the fall of Rome,

      Barbarians desecrating

      The place he should call home.

      And so he stuck his neck out

      Right to the guillotine,

      Or worse—well, what’s the heck about—

      An imprisoned mind’s routine.

      The jail that they could put him in

      Might not be safe at all;

      To be assaulted, raped by gangs,

      Crushed hard against a wall.

      Still he offered up his book;

      His hated foes attacked.

      He hoped that you might take a look

      Before your Rome got sacked.

      WE LIVE IN TEMPORARY TIMES

      We live in temporary times,

      Borrowed on the lives of men.

      Bravely do they die for crimes

      Of Neo-Rome’s Imperium.

      While we glibly spend the spree,

      Fight they rounds with endless foes,

      And testify that we are free.

      The truth yet everybody knows.

      The limes are manned, the legions guard

      The homeward leading land and sea;

      But the economic heart

      Is rotten and a hollow tree.

      True enough, the tree still stands,

      And makes for an illusion fair;

      But branches reaching dying hands

      Grasp aloft a thinning air.

      We live a life beyond our means,

      And build on top of wormy wood;

      The future not yet what it seemed,

      A past that blinds to what was good.

      We borrow on a priceless wealth,

      And mortgage living land away

      For a legal fiction’s health—

      The corporate states’ reckless sway.

      The trading day, when it goes south,

      Will wipe out values held for keeps.

      Then we will from hand to mouth

      Subsist, while in starvation creeps.

      Back to chaos, new Dark Age,

      With barbarism at the door;

      Violence only to assuage

      The plundering villains’ army corps.

      Perhaps a city-state may linger

      Here and there amongst the wars.

      But fanaticism, trigger fingers,

      Will dominate from shore to shore.

      The cause, it is no mystery,

      Except perhaps in motivation.

      Why then this subtle trickery,

      To smash the last of moral nations?

      A kind of evil lurks in some,

      A love of death—or longing for it—

      Let’s get it all now over, done!

      And woe to those who still abhor it.

      Debase the coin, and be last lender;

      Fiat money, printed paper;

      Then inflate, force legal tender:

      Take down Liberty and rape her!

      The dinosaurs have come and gone.

      The proto-mammals won the day.

      What will

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