Sense Sonnet - Acher

Columbus Day

We "celebrate" Columbus Day,
Named for a guy who came by ship,
Never to touch the U.S.A.,
Pretty much on an ego trip.
Catholic Knights of Columbus
Lobbied Congress and FDR
To stick the day on all of us,
For immigrants who were and are.
The old and new worlds did not merge
In too much human harmony.
Those indigenous felt the purge
From immigrant brutality.

Columbus sailed off into fate -
Nothing for us to celebrate.