The smoky midwest sky
falls apart mid morning.
You’re trying to fill your lungs
with clouds.
The second time
in two days you force
a twenty minute drive
across a foreign town
to medicate-

Is Illinois considered
the Midwest?

This edible has gone
to your head.
A radio man chimes in,
rants about the death of American
society.
A man you’ll never know
complains about a Chinese
spy balloon,
the left is grooming your children,
it’s sick
a man could love another man,
it’s sick that a man could
love.

We all notice-
he’s silent about the priest
preaching the word unholy,
buying their mega homes
with your money.

What a dumbass-
The speakers of your own
god damn car fill the air
with gray hatred.
You pose
a danger to society
for what?
breathing-
checking the mail-
that is enough
to be sentenced to hell?

Then again-
Do you
really give
a good god damn
what a man
thinks-