engine thru the roof (2019)

Good if children never know existentialism

Or sophistry or cognitive dissonance,

Ostriches are make believe chickens

And Charles Dickens was a

Chimney sweeper of clean coal

And Twain appeared in blackface only

To be stricken from the curriculum

Used to mop up the

Overflowing levees

Good, better to never know the arc

Of history or donny darkos

Apotheosis

Or the ways to neutralize satire

Or how to eat spaghetti with

Both spoon and fork,

That's not existential

That's team twerk. 

2019