de-mo-cra-cy. funny
word. roll it along
your tongue and between
your lips. heads will turn.

heads of Americans in powdered wigs;
the French in a tennis court;
heads on either side of
a curtain of iron, and across
an independent Third World.

people love  dem-
strive for idealize worship
-ocracy. whisper it into the night.
(heads will turn)

and where is the ideal dream
in a democracy forced
into being by an occupying nation?

or in a country where the would-
-be freely elected is banned
by law from presidency? or where

the people have a choice,
but only between two
almost equally hated candidates?

de-mo-cra-cy.
funny word.