america the beautiful
(or)
moloch for too early
in the morning
--for governor scott walker
w/yr piss rivers of chemical bliss and choking fishes
w/yr burning black churches under hate banners and history
w/yr monsanto breath and methane fields of slaughter
w/yr profit prisoners pounding patties for the golden arches
w/yr cholesterol face and your hardened artery empathy
w/yr endless wars and infotainment conjuring hollywood
machine
w/yr ceaseless streams of comment page ugliness
w/yr starbucks sunrise in the Dow Jones calculated sky
w/yr terror warning telephone roll calls and clown car
candidates
moloch! yr limp liberal hand washing! moloch! yr police
march activism!
moloch! the taste of blood in yr streets! moloch! yr holy
gun cock!
w/yr bigbox discounts that have boarded the main street
w/yr boulevards of broken dreams for lost generations
w/yr kid faces plastered into candy crush diets and digital
quagmires
w/yr 24/7 news cycle of doom selling Disney democracy
w/yr right wing renegade time lords stone aging the future
w/yr NAFTA heirlooms of slave labor artistry
w/yr Thorstein Veblen eyes on the trans-pacific partnership
prize
w/yr gerrymandered cartography and yr common core ignorance
w/yr sewage system drinking water by the unregulated gallon
moloch! i’ve seen what your future holds, america!
moloch! who made me hate yr very scent! moloch! i can’t
breathe!
w/yr perfumed ladies masking noxious hearts
w/yr man child adulations and violent video game hard-ons
w/yr gun fixations and lobby dollars soaked in fossil fuel
chains
w/yr ghetto concentration camp benevolence
w/yr melting pot mythology leaning on yr leaden mind
w/yr cheap gas suburbia going up in smoke
w/yr marijuana boogie men getting high with street boys in
shit stalls
w/yr homophobia constitutional amendment propaganda
w/yr supreme court of lies and fixations
moloch! the long endless streets of rising rent bailouts!
moloch! your immigrant walls and detention center holiday
inns
w/yr patriot acts acting up in glass strewn playgrounds
w/yr capitalist colleges on legacy campuses hustling for a
buck
w/yr drought river and climate deniers sitting on boards of
influence
w/yr koch brother sugar daddies and their fascist sway
w/yr Fox News sitcoms running into nightmare finales
w/yr blockbuster carnage that’s too risqué for the big
screen
w/yr streaming services for the dead
w/yr DIRECTV porn girls being jizzed on by uncle sam’s small
cock
w/yr free market fallout and trickle down legacy
moloch! for being too big to fail! moloch! yr dirty angel
infrastructure!
w/yr rusted pipe logic resting on the broken beams of
bridges
w/yr potholed highways of summer vacation dreams
w/yr airplane incarceration and free headphone garbage piles
w/yr NRA kindness and semi-automatic lusts
w/yr millionaire sports idols and luxury car holograms
w/yr anti-union, anti-family, anti-intellectual jamboree
w/yr rain check ambitions and kudzu global scarf
w/yr rape joke love and right-to-work consciousness
w/yr oligarch family picnics and fireside book burnings
moloch! yr flag flying outside every single door like a
noose
moloch! yr morning radios of hate and innuendo
w/yr SOMA culture lollipop milky tit not allowed on
instagram
w/yr orwellian cameras on every single block
w/yr closest snowden shame and chelsea manning fashion
parade
w/yr holy wars and yr frankenstein ISIS game shows
w/yr military industrial complex money suck abortion clinic
blues
w/yr libraries housing the dust of progress
w/yr cities filling up with sea water smoothies
w/enough carbon dioxide in the air to choke yr revolution
christ
w/your orange-faced, racist, xenophobic, sexist, baby-dicked
commander-in-chief
w/all yr hateful beasts claiming they were born to lead
america the beautiful full on fat, sugar and salt with a rip
in yr seam
as inmate congresses continue to run the asylum
moloch! the horse you rode in on in one of those dull
westerns
that you used to love.
--John Grochalski
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