dummy

the Patriot

tumbled down from Pike’s Peak
like a clown in a clown-car
steering before pissed-off electric spiders
that ran around with baby-doll heads on them
bobbing up-and-down going to “kill somebody”
god-damn this country
who listened to mildew scream in the pipes
who saw George W. Bush in the shower-steam/
curtain/god bless
& frothed & spat & hissed in the
in-and-out of the courtyard
disinfected body
the bathroom parading before
everybody / the bright electric
rubber buggy bumpers
who said “pristine” & the evidence / spilling
a sticky foulness before
Abu Ghraib Guantanamo Baghdad / once more
grown intoxicated by the altitude / pushing us
too low, too low