Noise

a poem about America and its obsession with self help. But you can only lead a horse to water. And you only change after getting burned a few times

Smoke weed

don't smoke weed

Drink or don't drink

Vax or don't vax

write poetry

don't write poetry

down the line

through the Whimpering Twenties

the gulf widens further

between red and blue

white being the limbo betwixt

gurus and grifters

selling the promised land

to the fractured mass

this way, that way

avoid this, avoid that

like telling a kid 

in their first car

not to speed

words are only noise

to the uninitiated who've yet

to crash and...learn