Clues That We May Have Displeased Him

Teachers burnt out by armed fatherless gangsters and cursing infant whores

Laid off engineers numbly transitioning out the door with a few shabby boxes of books

Working class fathers brewing Meth and waiting for their promised good new jobs of tomorrow

The terminally ill finding religious solace in the fantasies of their pain meds

Mothers placing folded flags on clean beds of the sons who are never coming home

Malnourished babies sucking emptily at their refugee mother’s emaciated breasts

Salesmen with many tired-out stories whose services are no longer required…anywhere

Convicts who return with a certain sense of relief to their secure families behind bars

Self-medicating counselors helping substance abusers find decent ways to cope

Once-proud farmers forced to work for miserable hourly wages on corporate pig farms

Frightened young peasants toiling 14 hours every day for $3 and sleeping 20 to a room

Aging middle managers pitifully eager to please even after their recent downsizing

CEOs excited to clear their names of baseless charges yet, speaking only through their lawyers

Exemplary black men with extreme rates of hypertension and prostate cancer

Politicians standing firm on unilateral decisions privately made consulting with personal saviors

Rabbis, coaches and fathers swarming about in teen internet chat rooms

Devoted doctors performing hurried cosmetic surgery on old women in order to make golf tee times

Our children running amok on caffeine and sugar, but…they’re just expressing themselves

Loan swindlers pleading for federal bailouts to profitably refinance the already defrauded

New nurses changing jobs for raises but never quite learning proper medical care

Lonely and trusting retirees cruelly duped by those of their own offspring’s generation

The forgotten working poor agonizing in the night over whether to pay rent or buy food

Volunteers spending their own time and money only to be sneered at as foolish suckers

Rappers and reverends pimping their narrow fantasies like they were running sick old whores

Frogs gamely in a last stand on the crisscrossed ATV tiretracks of doomed wetlands

Hungover so-called craftsmen erecting one more overpriced modular dream suburb

Another clueless Texan idling a pickup for personal comfort, way out there in Calorada

Our boys on their fool’s errand amidst a civil war in a country we destroyed

Graduates who can’t read or write any language and don’t really know what they ‘r sain’

Gushing acceptance of every increase to already-insane levels of dEfense spending

Despoiling the land to rapidly guzzle any last oil reserves...without creating any alternatives

Believing that noisy, expensive, gasoline toys results in some kind of recreational renewal

Growing up without healthcare, exercise or education but…getting lots of fatty foods & sugary drinks

Letting the slickest, greediest and most self-centered continue to set our course

Mouthing the ironclad platitude that this blight they greedily label progress cannot be stopped

Falsely pitting people and jobs against the environment that supports them both

Balancing taxes on vices to maximize revenues while still retaining the hopelessly addicted

      Coupling pious patriotism with divine right in a loudly ignorant, exceptionist duet

Not being able to stand an office job yet eviscerating the beloved outdoors in your work

Tossing half a billion plastic bags per year in a mocking tribute to our own lifestyle

Using false interpretations of musty fictional scripture to foment hatred and conflict

Writing off any candidate who cannot compete in raising funds for empty media sound bites

Fretting over foreign pollution after outsourcing ours to dirtier offshore production standards

Watching as plans and animals pitifully struggle northward as the heat just keeps on increasing