We the People

We the People.

We are garbage.
We eat garbage
we drink garbage
we watch garbage
we wear garbage
we write garbage
we say garbage
we broadcast garbage.
We support the design of garbage
we support the broadcast of garbage
we support the production of garbage
we support the distribution of garbage
we buy our garbage on credit
when we can not afford it
so long as it is not in our back yard.


We support garbage
but we do not want to think about our garbage.
We want garbage
but we do not want to hear why we should not want garbage.
We do not trust those
who say our garbage is wrong.
We do not want to hear their argument against our garbage
because we love our garbage
we want our garbage
we are our garbage
so long as it is not in our back yard.

We are afraid of our children
because we do not understand them.
When our children do something we do not understand
we do not ask our children.
Instead we turn to our garbage
because it is our garbage that we truly love.
We ask "garbage, what is wrong with our children?"
and garbage responds "clearly they do not have enough garbage."
We give our children garbage
we feed our children garbage
we let our children watch garbage
we let our children wear garbage
and still our children scare us.

We say "garbage, there is something still wrong with our children."
Garbage says "obviously you didn't give them enough garbage."
and we say "of course."
So we give our children more garbage
much more garbage
as much garbage as possible
and more.

Garbage. Garbage. Garbage.
Anything to keep them quiet.
Anything to keep them docile.
In garbage we trust.
Catharsis?
Expression?
Explanation?
No thanks, we'll stick with our garbage.
Its been working fine so far.

Aaron C. Molden