In velvet-breezed luxury
Plaid falsity sockless loafer vanity
Holding a crisp-folded Wall Street Journal
And all the cards
Tight-lipped, tight-ass martini slurping fragility,
Looking down your nose to the lawn
Littered with your wives and
Other molded plastic toys
Chemical apologist, smoke belcher,
Land rapist, root ripper, you
Laid your faulty pipe
On the poor on purpose
Your poison pours through their pores
Your orders at the borders
Torture for your fortress
Wind changes direction
Smug sweater-wrapped shoulder shrug
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David Jacobson, founder of Inkflow Communications, is a writer and strategic communications consultant to social-impact organizations. He has self-published Az der Papa (a YA coming-of-age novella), At the Cookout: A White Man’s Journey in Black America (memoir), and The Man Behind the Mask (collaboration with American Ninja Warrior athletes Flip Rodriguez and Noah Kaufman). David teaches at The Writing Salon (San Francisco Bay Area) and provides private writing instruction to individuals.
