Our path to perdition started
at not eating French fries
wound through calling
gasoline ‘freedom molecules’
imagined ‘wars’ on
Christmas, culture veering to
repeatedly shooting up
cases of light beer
light-on-logic moves, each

For the past few generations
Americans have done more
of their critical reading in
supermarket checkout lines
than libraries

Eliminating our nation’s
education department only
completes the process
we were once top-shelf now
damaged cans in bargain bin

Welcome to the age of
America, self-checked out

– Mark Lucker
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