ideals

my ideas are ideal like Lenin,
who left Marx behind and rewrote the revolution to fit the times
my ideas are ideal like democracy with a hint of land, peace, and bread
which was ideal until the purges disturbed the peace of committed people
it's the ideal that unleashed the guillotine in Paris
and it's the ideal that unleashed the Germans on Paris
the ideal fuels hatred like Saudi oil fuels SUVs in American cities
those silly idealists and their hybrids are worse than rhyming poets with their ideal verses of romance
you want to be a visionary? see an optometrist
or a psychologist
or a history book
ideas are ideal until you crumble under their weight.