bush America

Here is a picture of modern American ignorance in poem form:

bush America

welcome to bush America
with steel steeples and mortar churches.
brass bells are steadfast as
ignorance in narrow sermons
screamed by grey-beard men while
wrinkled women wearing sequined caps
crack jokes, and even youth
proclaim hate with red-text letters.
when did we become the bastard
child of religion?

we've always been in bush America.

welcome to bush America
with media machines and inked-dark headlines.
starched shirts on fox news spread
videos of "blasphemies" in Arabic and
cindered red white and blue stomped
out by canvas sandals, and metered
lines of sergeant-clad Koreans
parading warheads chanting 미워하다 (hate).
when did we become naive
believing propaganda?

we've always been in bush America.

welcome to bush America
with join us or die mentalities.
pale men with ear pieces deny habeas corpus,
for placard signs are unpatriotic,
and green berets fillet Iraq for
missing mass destructions
since a lie can call down full-force
military might, right or otherwise.
when did we become so
presidentially polarized?

we've always been in bush America.

welcome to bush America where
non-Christian is Pagan and
Pagan is heathen and heathen
is Muslim, right mr. president?