I Want Kitty Back
At Mall 101 in Depoe Bay,
an American flag flies between two signs:
Red-lettered “Art.”
Blue-lettered “Liquor.”
Guess which store remains open when leisure haunts the Oregon Coast?
Super Bowl Sunday tomorrow.
Bruce Springsteen plays live.
“Born to Run” or “Born in the USA?”
Or both?
I wish he’d play “Kitty’s Back,”
stop American time
like a shotgun spread to the face,
send the market crashing
on Super Hangover Monday
when mediocre high school history teachers
come down with the flu
and roll video of when America
kept on rockin’ in the free world,
and later end the academic year
without teaching about the Freedom Rides
or the massacre at My Lai.
Don’t give them “Glory Days” Bruce!
Give them “Jungleland,” one song, that’s it.