torn labels

cherry branches
are cut down for pages
in th'american textbook.

                    and footnotes say not what
          you are but who you do
          your self –

and colours fear not
history [ for th map does not change
in th'american textbook. 

no                                no
passports                   travel        just enlist in

                      homeland
insecurity 

hear th back door gently close –   
a mistress
has left you alone
in th'american textbook. 

th'american textbook has one million things to say, such as
hello
and call me

                an american tongue
                forces itself
                into your ear

( remember, you had a girlfriend  in th'american textbook )

oh button
i do not want to know its secrets

th key to th'american textbook
is results /
                     where results
                                 get fucked

page 1 ~ american idols
page 2 ~ situational prose

          Kerouac did not find the word
          beat
          in th'american textbook,
                                     he found it in an apartment.

# posted by hardyf : 20:13