BANKRUPTCY OF OUR LIVELIHOOD

FINDING THE AMERICAN DREAM 

Riding the bike to the county line
to camp among the ditches
dug by the poor WPA sons a bitches
decades ago.

Now filled with dear heads and heads of deer,
tires, and shit that don’t float.
Consumerism fills them ditches
long after the sons a bitches who went to war;
formed the soon to be consumer class who went to work,
accruing debt.

Took awhile but we made it more than plausible
that we spent so much on the strife
we got sucked in by fifties adman promised
harmonious, relaxed, and stress-free life
that now we must make another class of sons a bitches
to empty out the drowning ditches
I want to camp beside.

Oh all them asylum escapees from other places
would gladly rise to the station (for minimal pay)
of cleaning out the befouled ditches,
dug decades ago, by WPA sons a bitches.

MDurfee
3/26/2025