Potatohead Poem by Owen Bittner

Reality show disconnect,
escape artist
airwaves silver surfer.
Indifferent deference,
Fox News terrorists
assailing homes nightly
perpetuating hate and fear,
corporate kkk
crosses burning in
hd plasma color.
Wag the Dog of Bentham –
greater good of
military-industrial
patriarch,
plane folding house-
of-cards tower
inciting ten years of
deceit, hiding
in plain sight.
WMDs and clown
free-world leader
laughing stock
potatohead,
pentagon 767 missile
misdirection
twin towers implosion
Afghan pipeline
twenty-first century call-to-arms.
Surrendering freedom
to parasite regime,
raping liberties –
Gitmo Roach Motel,
patriot Act prophylactic
blanket leavings us
cold
any way we stretch it.
War on terrorism
punch-line of
potbelly playground
bullies, wondering why
we are hated
while bitch-slapped
down off our
bleached pony,
rattling saber
Seppuku
with god approved
martyrdom.
Politicians consuming
the carcass of
society as
stepping stones for
political agenda,
gym class to M-16 PTSD
generations lost
chastity and
freestyle curiosity
replaced by kill counts,
taking flame to
paper-mache adolescence.
Guilt-cancelling yellow
ribbons for daughters
and brothers
the bill,
price of their pilfered
psyches payable only
when people
question why.