Ode To Now

America First is our creed Let’s use all we can at warp speed It’s great when we play And make foreigners pay While from any debt we get freed. One person alone can consume A few things in a big stockroom But acting en masse Generates greenhouse gas As an off-the-books toxic plume While this crisis might us annoy Hate adds considerable joy Disease and famine Are fun like backgammon And entertain the hoi-polloi Poison water and land does create Strange meals to eat and hydrate It’s not much concern Since our goal to discern Is a country made again great? It makes us feel safe after all The structure we worship that’s tall Since immigrants scare Private water and air Need tombstones arranged as a wall. Two chains in our DNA linked Give humans a code quite distinct But with a god’s mind We’ve become strangely blind To who’s next to end up extinct