To bar the courthouse door banning gays & atheists
The unhappy saga began four years ago
When a factory pollutes a town's drinking water
Experts react
To distract the masses and it's working
A post-mortem show of some kind of pulse
Of red-meat rhetoric
War tied into pretzels
An indictment and a potential epitaph
Rats use the magnetic field
At least for long distances as a compass
They enjoy free access to our mailboxes
The Postal Service is reminded
That what it does matters
Particularly in
A polyglot code has emerged
Where humans are described as cows
The fodder for many, many post-mortems
Where preferences for slaughter are discussed
Blame it on automation
We just send them to the Santa Claus office
At 30th & Market above the watery void
In effect humans serve as a virus mixing bowl
Everyone can serve
I think we've got to avoid getting fond of a design
You were a stratagem in the fervor of rats
Humming the psalms that sparked the napalm nation
If every generation has a cross covered alibi lying across its losses
A bronzed virgin cockroach mother
Then what for the tributaries and consanguinities that bind us
My bloodied Mother howls back at her tormentors
Peak Oil came did you see it?
The stratosphere skin that once kept the starlight safe
Now bleeds sunlight while glaciers crowd the water
There was a place for love in this life just where now does it get shepherded
Between the Sunday crossword puzzle and the homophobic advice columnist
There is too little room left for light in the bright white heat
Fill your hand with the future of pistols, today
Like global positioning devices
To help fleets towards their cabs
Defined in terms
Designed or marketed as useful
For the stimulation of human genital organs
You might also call the capacity
To turn a cow into fabric softener
A kind of industrial farming
To compete with the Chinas of the world
It's not a deal where everyone gains instantly
The President will visit a black church or two
Women of childbearing age
Would be wise to limit their intake
Of farm-raised salmon and cancer
Still, being Martha Stewart has certain advantages
Lacking both air and magnetic field
