@ temthaw

I like many of your suggestions.  Admittedly, this poem is not supposed to flow. It's supposed to jerk the reader around.  There is one important thing that i disagree with you on, mainly the elimination of the word "running" (this would leave 26.5 as the only clue as to what i'm writing about).  Also the apostrophe is very necessary in the the first line.

Thanks for your feedback.


Also,  I'm glad that America did not adopt the Gadsden flag as our emblem.  The Gadsden flag represents (and I believe always will represent) resistance to entrenched power: during the revolution it meant resistance to the king and his occupational government, today it means resistance to the globalists and their occupational government.