To the editor:

They have turned our Constitution upside down.

This government of grifters, con men, clowns.

Cast off the rule of law and freedom drowns

And the men in masks come marching into town.

They have turned the lessons of our history inside out

Expunging what the Civil War was all about

False narratives that sew discord and doubt

And the men in masks march north and south.

They have turned the rule of law upon its head

Until our Bill of Rights is nearly dead.

They give us Project Twenty-Five instead

And along with men in masks march fear and dread.

How easily our framework is undone

When it turns out checks and balances are none

When Congress only cares about who won

When the men in masks come marching with their guns.

Six Justices fall prey to siren songs

Loathe to look at proof of Presidential wrongs

Too many too content to go along

And the men in masks march where they don’t belong.

In intemperate tweets and slurs Jim Crow rebounds

Again the demons from our past come round

A gilded home, the MAGA hat a crown

And the men in masks come marching into town.

James B. Kobak Jr.

Keene Valley