inside America

                                                                          a far different America than he grew up in

a culture of death was born and persists

parents dress their babies and children in camouflage

or outfits decorated with skulls

he was puzzled                                                            

                                                                                     they did not notice what he noticed

the skulls

white bared bones

laced in red flames

grinning lurid

or sadistic

eyeballs

suspended on nothing

stare from their sockets

he read widely 

things found their way into his hands

for instance  anthropology 

there are three human races  

the Negroid Mongoloid and Caucasoid

                                                    Black Asian and White  for those who avoid –oid words

their skulls are specific

and very different from one another

his notice was

first and foremost to American parents 

then to a remaining share of other Americans who buy and wear clothing garments

tchotchkes you-name-it

that sport skulls

the skulls advertised

are Caucasoid-shaped

hard not to wonder if this 9/11 born-and-bred popular death culture isnt suggesting 

something

that maybe Whitey

ought to pay attention to

1753,  Saturday,  15  2. 14