bunting

And Curse the Fools – A Poem (26 July 2015)

Bunting, red and white and blue, hung on the porch rail
like the skirt on a girl who just had sex
with the high school janitor in an unused classroom.
Patriotism on display, so proud, so dignified, so bogus.

I drive by and wonder what and wonder why
and curse the fools who never question

A flag, red and white and blue, hung from a wooden pole
dirty with bird crap, the flag’s white yellowed, water-stained;
the flag hung limp like a high school janitor’s sated dick.
Patriotism on display, so proud, so dignified, so bogus.

I drive by and wonder what and wonder why
and curse the fools who never question

“Support Our Troops” on the bumper of a truck in the drive,
small-town midwestern politics displayed on chrome
beside the Confederate battle flag, a high school janitor’s bed.
Patriotism on display, so proud, so dignified, so bogus.

I drive by and wonder what and wonder why
and curse the fools who never question

by C. Eric Funston
26 July 2015