The America Show

This guy won again,
about to be fired
for personal ritual
he did it real fast.
That confederate flag
in his window I say,
and am reminded
doesn't mean a thing
but they never went
inside did they?

This is America.
There's a strange
thing that happens
as whole nations
go belly-up and land
in the quagmire,
as they turn into
the beggars that
they once hated,
the ones cheated,
as they are overturned
and replaced.
The mirror stops
bringing back the news
but there's more.

Industry Awakening

Just people, some of us sick
from the same tribes and
dying the same way
from the same thing,
choking on cotton
and cough drops,
tainted raisins and rain.
Here she comes at last
with her bad-news voice
toward the end of the day,
you are dying again
she says but that wasn't
what it was she wanted to
talk to me about, no.
This whole country's
dying of the same thing
it seems, dying again of death,
something about her phone,
the ones who listen in.