taste

tea party reactionaries
hold a woman's body hostage
on the delaware river
near washington crossing
the island group is erupting in fights
over who ate the last hot dog
and whether or not they should get mexican
...secretly
b/c eating a taco would support immigration

it's a matter of taste
which we all know there's no
accounting for
b/c the economists left the building
on their lunch breaks to get
a 5 dollar chinese lunch platter
in which the broccoli was over cooked
and anemic swimming in soggy general tsos

over the river in NJ guatemalans
are having a pizza party
they ordered from Giovanni's b/c
everyone in town knows they make the best crust
coors light cans litter patio bricks
and music plays from a radio
fading into a humid hazy summer sunset