capitol

Airport sushi, third rail mocktails
Trees and gleaming hotel towers
Famous artworks, dino fossils—
Welcome to the epicenter

(father, i’m home)

Drown yourself in abstract beauty
Send those kids to nowhere fast and
Clap and cheer for Lockheed Martin’s
Yearly rainbow fascist marches

(i saw your name in lights)

Get it twisted: all these buildings
Stand on ancient graveyard districts
Only daily foreign bloodshed
Keeps their basements treading water

(i watched you sell your soul)

Missile kisses bring no magic
Strip mall social lives won’t save you
Rainbow flags are not a bandage
Grandma’s coat won’t fit a city

(and it was so familiar)

I can tell you’re losing interest
Just go back to your routine of
Handing out those purple hearts to
Every blue-balled bootboy bastard

(and i don’t love you anymore)