Excerpts of a State of the Union Bender, with the Passion of Fitzgerald

Keep me at the oiled outer reaches,
me in my place where I used to like
how I would think. There’s a kick-ass
section of this that’s medically necessary
and economically imperative that I teach
it to you. Down with the man! we all say
with beer spilling from our mouths,
down with chips outnumbering dips!
the one percent an infinite snack,
the cancerous blob of avocado envy.
The dreams of my father are thinly
repeated, rushing upon me with
the intimidation of the sea. We saved
all industry from drowning and we are
great for making them people since CPR
works better that way. Crystallize equality
do we can put it in a museum and show
our great-great-grand kids how our great-
great-grand nation used to fuck
the great-great-grand world over.

-C.S. Henderson