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It
Is the Dawning of
the
Age of Leviticus
by John Enright
America, I am so afraid for
you
with your tobacco taliban
your airport no-joke zones
your fear and enclosure laws
your half-cocked
self-theocracy
and your declared state of war
on anyone who does not look
like you do in the mirrors of
public bathrooms or the camera
eyes of your Republican god.
America, I am so sick for you
who wants to eat my children
calling them battalions and
platoons,
who wants to suck the planet
dry
because it can, who can cancel
all futures to feed its own
present
obscene in its feasting on
ignorance
obese from eating its own
offspring
and then suckling itself on
its own
engorged and cancerous teats.
America, I am so ashamed for
you.
You are just a drunken whore
asking for more, the child
with a gun
in a high school classroom
killing
anyone who reads, everyone who
thinks.
You are the demigod that does
not care
obedient to a power that is
not there.
America, your mindlessness has
become
the new definition of evil,
but
what does that mean to you?
Nothing.
From his recent collection On Turning 60
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