Gateway town, Mississippi and Missouri river flooding confluence,
with its celebration of manifest destiny, its looming, iconic archway.
Stainless westward marker, its culture flowed southward for influence
within the lawn-jockey, pink flamingo neighborhoods of moral decay.
T.S, Eliot, Darren Wilson, William Burroughs, Dick Gregory, Phyllis Schlafly,
just like all my childhood companions who remained on the plantation.
With all...
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