Josh Moore America

Stand cold 3 AM on work line, slighted, famished, impoverished, vanished, faded, hungry. Long walk down Cliff Avenue hill, US Highway, dissecting sides of Sioux. Hard day labor, sex offenders, hardened convict, roll down production line. Here I am, college degree, communication binge drink, division one university in Brookings, America. Capanelle visible 15 miles north on 90. Piece work calendars, and walking after George Floyd in Sioux Falls. A night of gunshots, shots. Riot at Empire Mall, stolen rifles, gun store Grange Avenue. Tires littered Otter River, drought, water under a foot. The cool breeze paints Josh Moore, tobacco papers, comic book background. Federal courthouse a mile south, lady judge United States. “Born in the USA.”