Picket Fencing

Change in blue and red

Posterboy for the American something

Everybody's got a tea party to get to or some

Park or some FB wall to occupy

Discontent...jobs economy some-such-bullshit

The Cops shut down the protests.

Snowdennet is out to catch rabbit trails

And all your emails

And the shoe rule at the airport ensures exactly one thing:

That those unimaginative enough to try a terrorist attack

Exactly like one that came before it will be foiled.
A pat(down) on the back gives you a nice illusion of safety.

Your little white spikes on the front lawn

Aren't fooling no rabbits or robbers.

And your security system won't do you no good

When the reckoning comes.

The government is repeatedly eviscerated and blown to

Smithereens through film:  Independence Day, Red, Avengers,

Nikita, X-Men: Future Past.  There are demons in the machine.

Press pause for a minute, thank your stars,

And take a look at that nice border fence that walls in your

Your manicured utopian green.

"How are you?"

"It's been tough."

But you've already moved on with those nice picket teeth

Peeking out of a red lawn.

The problems are much more complicated than the books make it seem.

Touché.

But that still doesn't mean

We can't do anything.

I've got a five point plan to steal all the chain-link and

1x6s in this town,

Then take torches to the illusions

Of separations

You've got around.

I'm tired of table talk,

I'm tired of pretending like we're not

All damaged

I'm tired of pretending like

The world's okay.

So I'm sorry about the white 1x4 in

My eye, got me seeing red,

But no, I will not come down,

Until I see the lawns burning.


From the Upcoming Collection "Reasons for Cutting the Power to a Large Section of America")