To America: the Not-So-Beautiful

Written by  Paula Bowser

You greedy slut.

How could anyone resist you?

You with your lavish baggage

(which you make the rest of the world carry)

You with your wanton eyes

always on the prowl.

You're a hermaphrodite as well,

A thug as well as a slut.

Always hopped up on testosterone

Ever the arsonist and the aggressor,

playing with guns,

bragging and brawling

and burping out obscenities with your beery breath.

Whatever it takes, you'll do it.

Whatever it takes

to win,

to dominate.

You can lie with the best of them

like a four year old who thinks the world can't see.

Like Satan himself.

You're schizoid too,

a puritanical whore

self-righteous about the unborn

and sending thousands of 20-somethings

to die in your insane crusades.

How eager you are to pimp out your soul

for the pottage down at the mall,

flaunting those pricey Nikes

made just for you by children in sweatshops.

In and out of stores you go, stoking your lust for

chocolate, bananas, coffee, sugar and diamonds.

The Hebrew prophets were calling your name

when they cried out against corporate crimes.

They had your number -

You with your Wall Street WonderBoyz and Ponzi schemes.

You and your insurance drones

kicking the sick to the curb with pre-existing conditions.

Your business is swallowing homes

and raiding of pensions,

devouring widows and orphans.

What a hypocrite you are,

tarted up in your red-white and blue miniskirt,

yipping about family values and freedom

and then crucifying gays

who just for Christ's sake want the freedom to marry.

Violence is your middle name.

Even as you tut tut against Muslims and Nazis

Here you are, turning a blind eye to sexual slavery

and incest and rape.

Believe me, America,

Amos was talking about YOU when he said

"A little girl is sold for the price of a pair of sandals

and a pre-pubescent boy for the price of a pair of shoes."