Kel Norman

Republicans Are Obsessed With Me

The smoky midwest sky
falls apart mid morning.
You’re trying to fill your lungs
with clouds.
The second time
in two days you force
a twenty minute drive
across a foreign town
to medicate-
 
Is Illinois considered
the Midwest?
 
This edible has gone
to your head.
A radio man chimes in,
rants about the death of American
society.
A man you’ll never know
complains about a Chinese
spy balloon,
the left is grooming your children,
it’s sick
a man could love another man,
it’s sick that a man could
love.
 
We all notice-
he’s silent about the priest
preaching the word unholy,
buying their mega homes
with your money.
 
What a dumbass-
The speakers of your own
god damn car fill the air
with gray hatred.
You pose
a danger to society
for what?
breathing-
checking the mail-
that is enough
to be sentenced to hell?
 
 
Then again-
Do you
really give
a good god damn
what a man
thinks-