Pox Americana

 Pendulum or wheel,

History’s dumb plane of repetition

has led us here…

A perfect shit storm of greed,

willful amnesia, and hubris.

That same sickness

that scorched Europe, was

carried across the Atlantic,

festered in the recesses

of hidden valleys

and the hollow vastness

of the plains…

Until a prick from New York

ruptured the abscess

and now

Pox Americana

is a plague upon the land.