GOOD AMERICANS

Good Americans are kind to dogs and children.

Good Americans give to the thoroughly needy.

Good Americans are massively patriotic.

Fine Americans express such tender sympathies.

Good Americans have never harmed a living creature.

Good Americans lead basically blameless lives.

Good Americans are proud of their personal karmas.

Upstanding Americans never hear the screams.

Good Americans tend to their own little gardens.

Good Americans don’t count their pit bulls 

before they’ve hatched

Good Americans breed BMW’s for pleasure.

Responsible Americans never drive home through Watts.

Good Americans know that nothing is sacred but style.

Good Americans shop on ebay or Amazon or Saks.

Good Americans own smart phones and second amendment attack drones.

But Loyal Americans own no lampshades of human flesh.

Good Americans are aggressively apathetic.

Good Americans can’t hear the children scream.

Good Americans make a business of keeping

their hands clean.

God-fearing Americans are only doing their jobs.

Good Americans are not their brother’s keepers.

Good Americans wear blindfolds on their blindfolds.

Good Americans have front row seats in Heaven.

Decent Americans don’t hear the tortured screams.

Good Americans ask only that God grant them

the serenity to accept the things

they cannot change

and the ability to ignore the things 

they can.

Good Americans 

—Linda J. Albertano