BLACKWATER & OHIOPYLE BILE
The Blackwater’s cataract rages repentless, unremitting,
relentless, over the precipice. It drowns silence.
* * *
Why do you watch him squirt his vulture acid shit?
Don’t you see he’s squatting over the Bill of Rights,
and the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments?
Diarrhea? Logorrhea? He’s
already selling his shit as a drink.
* * *
More than once, a flood on the Blackwater
heaved hemlocks into the roil.
* * *
Look at the trademarks, royalties, and toasts.
From Wall Street in New York, New York
to Market Street in Saltsburg, Pennsylvania,
the captains of greed join the desperately pissed
to toast “real” America’s future and past.
* * *
When we stood at Ohiopyle, we still denied
the ineluctable truth that we could hold it together.
* * *
Can they mix it with high-volume slickwater?
Fracktini’s.
Mix: TDS, arsenic, barium, strontium, and radium.
It blends just so with racist
bile and vulture shit. By the dawn’s
early light
we’ll be reeling.
* * *
Oh sweet, sweet delirium.
Peter Walks for Democracy 