A New Moral World
Robert Owens believed
Robert Owens had money
he purchased a town
to introduce socialism
which in America at the time
wasn’t yet a dirty word
ideas don’t always become deeds
and idea people never trust
working people, working people
never trust ideas people
the new moral world fumbled
and socialism quickly became chaos
the lauded experiment cleaved
Owens mostly bankrupt
sold the town
tried again but no one
gave him another town
even though Texas
not yet a state, considered it
in New Harmony Indiana
where the experiment died
it’s said they were to have a funeral
for the death of the idea
typical of America
the night before
someone stole the casket
containing the invisible corpse
of a nascent idea
--Jason Baldinger
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