Code of the Rest

Below is a poem I wrote about 15 years ago.

I saw then that some of what has hit this country in the last few years was already in the works. I never thought the poem would be such a correct prediction of the way things are now.

Titled “Code of the Rest,” it provides what I believe to be a fair comparison between the radical socialist left and the moderate conservative right.

Forget the Code of the West, the Code of the Rest is best. Honor is out, we compromise. Morality is out, we surmise. Every thing is relative including them. Get a bigger kick, divorce her or him. Forget the Code of the We...