Dear America

riots everywhere
built from adjectives or intransitive verbs
I can't remember which, but they were
but I was
awoken by an alarm clock
from electricity generated by that what will kill us
Susan, she said it.
It was her. At the appropriate time
by a national institute
of standards and measures
there we were, off I-80
pumping gas at 3.14 a gallon
we got cigarettes and kept moving
It was something these people can't understand
the language
the nobility
our behaviours
Susan, she said it in a way that
hearts can be melted. She had a way with those
words. Or maybe it was the way she said it?