Peel Back

peel back

peel back
the layers
of this rotting
fruit, one
billion at a time,
and take another
look – young America,
it was only a matter
of time before
we lost
those words
of, by, and for,
led astray
by this greying
Congress
.

Yi-Ching Lin 2008

Posted over on her site Yi's Bits on "Healthy Doses"