We should drop the bomb on them.
Folk wisdom in a rural Kentucky town.
The same minds that elect billionaires
to solve their problems advocate for
total war in places they’ve only heard of.
The collective imagination of America is
destroying enemies with a bevy of atomic blasts
and sleeping better for it.
Plug in a bug zapper at night.
Fire off a salvo of rockets in the soft, morning light and walk tall.
I watched two men punch each other on the highway.
Parts from their trucks were in pieces, scattered
across the median, the road, the emergency lane.
Among pools of collecting oil and anti-freeze they grappled,
Americans.
holds a PhD in English Literature from Ball State University (2016). His poetry and fiction appear in The Russell Creek Review (2013).