Holding Company
USA
is the world’s greatest
aggregation
of river valleys
fringed with
bank accounts
of bound uniforms
of men buried in their
Westerns
of protests
scrawled in laws
dog-eared and
history
of too many too many too many
of rubbed out
margins
of world written in
letters, but mostly
USA
Natural Selection
America
got wind
they had died:
trying to influence
in a wasp’s nest,
they had been stung
dead –
hybrid, infidel
evil, this
wasp-Selection
buried America,
Darwin daisies
blooming beside
what they did.
Wasps!
Congregations of,
they believed in
their churches,
infidels,
a volcano of
evil
with never
a thought for Santa
or America.
.
[from USA – John Dos Passos]
.
Mike Ferguson
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