200 Years by Brad Lakritz (1976)

200 Years

by
Brad Lakritz*

What's going on here, damn it?

I see people, crazy over 200 years.

What's so great about 200?

I was happy to get to 199, and,

now calm down, people are people.

They think big over these things.

But what happens next year?

It'll be the same old thing.

Hell 201 is a year better than 200,

but things go crazy over 200.

I don't understand,

I was happy to get to 199.

* This poem was written in 1976 during the celebration of
200 years of the Constitution of the United States.