Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary via Daily Mail; Donald Trump via DonkeyHotey
. . . where shall you listen
when all is become billboards, when, all, even silence, is spray-gunned?
--Charles Olson, “I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You”
Tonight, hunched
over his iPad,
your son will decide
whether to devote his life
to commerce
or killing—
already dreading
some corporate career
in throwaway crap,
already fancying
the euphoria
of wielding a bullpup.
He replays the video
of a capitalist
endorsing himself
by espousing bigoted blather.
He replays the video
of a jihadist
ambling into view
after executing sunbathers.
William Aarnes had recent work in Main Street Rag, Shark Reef, Empty Sink, and The New Verse News.
