America why do you sink so low after heady heights?
America who is this petulant child at your helm?
Why do you steer your 'great' ship into a thousand icebergs?
America he's given you nothing and left you with havoc.
What a sticky mess, a tacky mess, and not the sort you like.
America he's taking notes.
He's got your name.
He learns his tricks from Kim Jong-un and Putin is his bedfellow.
America it's your trillion candy canes he's holding back.
He's given them back to the candy cane factory to sell again.
America when will you be great again?
When will you take off your armour?
When will you look at yourself through a foreign grave?
America why are your libraries full of meat?
Are you going to let your emotional life be run by Twitter?
Fox News called, it has your coupons. They'll sell them to you for what they're worth.
They'll swap them for your dignity and then get drunk in Chinatown.
America are you being witless or is this some kind of practical joke?
America how can I write a holy litany in your abosolutist mood?
America you better consider your national resources.
They consist of one access pipeline, a short supply of bandages, and 18 million downstream.
I say nothing about your prisons nor a hundred million dissenting voices, and no voices, a legion of underpaid over-harassed women and an ardourless armoury.
America this is quite serious.
America this is the impression I get scrolling through my Facebook feed.
America is this correct?
I'd better get right down to the job.
It's true Australia's hardly different so I better turn my sight and scythe in that direction.
America I'm putting my dissenting heart to the stern and saying goodbye.
Photo by Samuel Branch
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