Independence Day
Independence Day
By W. D. Ehrhart
It is indeed inarguably
self-evident that all men
are created equal, endowed
by their Creator with certain
inalienable rights including
life, liberty, and happiness,
or at least the pursuit thereof.
All men, excepting of course
Negroes, savages, the poor,
the uneducated, indentured
servants, and women; all
women, regardless of race,
ethnicity, social standing,
economic status, or education.
After all, it doesn’t say that all
people are created equal,
or all human beings, but rather
all men. And women aren’t men.
Moreover, how can anyone be
a real man if he is not white,
propertied, and literate?
W. D. Ehrhart’s latest poetry collections are Thank You for Your Service: Collected Poems (McFarland, 2019) and At Smedley Butler’s Grave (Moonstone, 2023).