wastrel

Sing, Muse! Our aristeia's at its end
the U.S. had its day on the world stage
a waffling ally and uncertain friend
and prone to intermittent bouts of rage
the rank and file have ditched the GOP
the stubby-fingered one now holds those reins
the pacts that held for half a century
are threatening to circle down the drain
what archaeologist will reconstruct
the promise squandered on so large a scale
once global hegemon and now so fucked
the latest Ozymandias to fail
our brave republic totters towards the dump
if we can't  block the rise of Donald Trump