We would do well to learn from the French,
but while they took it farther,
they learned it first from us.
Dispelling monarchies is all-American.
We play dress up and imagine our future,
this time as frogs, masked in agency
with an unordered cacophony of ribbits
loud enough to shout sleep away from the guilty,
an insistent drone day and night,
We agree, we agree, no kings, no kings in America.