SHUT
make
America
great again
send in
the Pied Pipers
with tear gas
and pistols
and pepper balls
too strong for tacos
shepherd, corall,
light
the big bonfire
square the
circle
make the flag big
exceptional, exponential,
bigger and bigger
stick it up
on a pole
tall as
an ICBM or
at least
puny cruise missile
expanding, contracting,
what need
Monroe, Donroe
doctrine
when flag shroud
swathes the planet
no more
talk of inside or outside
Rams, Patriots, Broncos,
Seahawks
there can,
must
be only one:
undisputed world champions
ball in
the endzone, ball
always next to your desk
and
in the meanwhile, as
the spotlights
turn
on
themselves, do morph
into searchlights
stars
on the flag eclipsing
the real
stars
themselves
no sense asking
where the pipers
took us
what did
with our children
was the
suicide of grace, assassination
of elegance
took
us to this place
gate
closed, locks snapped shut
poems 2 die for 