The ice cream truck driven by a Latino man plays \u201cDixie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A teenage moll vapes weed while other teenagers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
including the one who shit his pants on the street last Fourth of July,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
scream profanities in preparation for a knife fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ll watch from the recliner<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and never think once about calling the cops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A homeless man rides by on kid’s bicycle<\/p>\n\n\n\n
with a mounted American flag blowing in the breeze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do homeless people celebrate America’s birthday?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If so, why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
America at 250!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Self inflicted euthanasia courtesy of a petrified Constitution<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and octogenarians who won’t pass the burned-out torch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Lou Reed sang:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor\u2014I’ll piss on ’em Overheard earlier at the meat counter of the socialist grocery store,<\/p>\n\n\n\n MAGA meat cutter with blood smeared across his apron<\/p>\n\n\n\n whispers to a grizzled man holding a t-bone steak,<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere was nothing here before we arrived.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n He meant the Americas before Pilgrims and Cortez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I was going to object but was holding a roast to barbecue for the dog,<\/p>\n\n\n\n and it seemed impolite to debate holding a roast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So I’ll celebrate the Fourth of July<\/p>\n\n\n\n by watching a double feature\u2014The Postman Always Rings Twice<\/em>\u2014twice!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lana Turner in shorts and Jessica Lange up on a butcher’s block!<\/p>\n\n\n\n There might a knife fight, there might be an ice cream sandwich,<\/p>\n\n\n\n there will be fireworks and maybe the kid will shit himself on the street again<\/p>\n\n\n\n sustain the metaphor and deliver the indictment and verdict all in one blast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The ice cream truck driven by a Latino man plays \u201cDixie.\u201d A teenage moll vapes weed while other teenagers, including the one who shit his pants on the street last Fourth of July, scream profanities in preparation for a knife fight. I’ll watch from the recliner and never think once about calling the cops. A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1264,5,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coos-bay","category-meditations","category-poetry","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10057,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10055\/revisions\/10057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
That’s what the Statue of Bigotry says
Your poor huddled masses, let’s club ’em to death
And get it over with and just dump ’em on the boulevard<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n