Mussolini, Bare-Chested for the Grain Harvest

Mussolini, Bare-Chested for the Grain Harvest

Man sweats in his labor

back bent working the fields

to bring forth the bounty of the earth.

Such a man may speak but is rarely heard. 

I have told you he will now be heard 

and the smirkers, you puny ones

scribbling in your notebooks such brave petitions

you will have your time in the barrel--

for you are as a blight on the people

next to Mussolini, wielding his scythe 

bare-chested for the grain harvest

performing agriculture for the cameras.