Rosie The Riveter

I am dead

did you know that?

seems Obama can’t acknowledge

any one but sports figures

I made the Arsenal

Of Democracy

back in the dear dead days gone by

when Americans made things

now they just buy things

Democracy?

did I defeat Hitler for what you have now?

this deadness?  seems to me

old Adolf won

well women now have their place

right after obese Americans

and Michael Vick

and oh yes Joe The Plumber

I am history now

do Americans read anymore?

how to really do things?

how to make things happen

with your own two hands?

a cyber nation

a simulation of Democracy

online and trendy

even me

your ghost from the past

for I of course am dead

Peter Buknatski

Montpelier, Vt.