“You’re fighting for Freedom.”
Says the proud father
to his son,
over the tapped phone line.
“Periods of Heating are natural occurrences.”
Says the bespectacled scientist
to the audience of Fox News.
“They’re just Criminals and Addicts.”
Says the suburban housewife
to her bridge friends
in the gated community.
“You’re going to Hell.”
Says the christian mother
to her pregnant daughter,
confidant of her
moral superiority.
“They could Strike anywhere.”
Says the rural teacher,
peering fearfully through the schoolhouse window
at the field of corn
waving
peacefully.
“They’re taking our Jobs.”
Says the overweight day trader
in first class,
to the tax accountant.
“These people need your Help.”
Says the b-rate celeb
in-between episodes of Fear Factor,
to the couch potato
feasting on his
microwavable dinner.
“The Economy is strong.”
Says the president in a prime-time
broadcast
through the radio of the
machinist-turned-night watchman.
“I can’t believe she was wearing Gap.”
Says the distraught teenager,
on her cell phone with
her best friend.
-timelyIRONY
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