A Faulty Manifesto

Does anyone really know

what is a manifesto?

Is that what a poem is,

even in a rhyme like this?

It is a declaration

for public information.

“Now hear this” is what it says

forcefully and nothing less.

Why couldn’t a poem be

a manifesto from me?

The only reason i see,

I have no authority.

Taken with a grain of salt,

the outcome is not my fault.

Walt Abbott–6-1-2010