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America’s Car
by Tom Karlson
This car is gassed up on shock and awe
a wanna be weapons of mass destruction locator
a would be free election polling booth
19 thugs with box cutters can fly this machine
the tyrant’s hangman sits in slack jawed ecstasy
high on free will, retribution, democracy
This car is fueled on eminent domain
where bicycle and pedestrian are exiled or extinct
An old porker
ground to sausage
swarming with trichina worms
lusting for cardiac
where stadium glow like radioactive yeast infections
and hospitals are transformed to condos for cadavers
Henry ford
john d rockefeller
jp morgan
ride shotgun
spewing death, turning wilderness into acid rain
which runs down the cheeks of the grandfather and grandmother
This humvee is a 21st century predator designed by chrysler
for war and funeral
today a desert bound complex hydro-carbon devouring
shitting carbon dioxide death-mobile
turning 400 million year old fern forests
into dante’s inferno
as passengers play
extinction alphabet
stock option solitaire
running red lights and stop signs
while shopping for surplus value,
junk yard bargains and endless war