by Howie Good
I love you, America, your big sunglasses,
your grisly experiments with dogs,
the silence of your empty offices at night,
your trees like the bars on windows.
I love your unguarded coughs, too,
your presumption in naming babies
for cities all over the world.
Oh, I love you, America,
and your half-smile, half-smirk
when I say it.
Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of 18 print and digital poetry chapbooks and the full-length collection of poetry, Lovesick (2009). His second full-length collection, Heart With a Dirty Windshield, will be published by BeWrite Books.