For you, Mr. Nothing

Mason jar spirit
maintain leash length.
Hearts under home arrest
subject verb agreement.
Realization re-run
static on the edges.
Toothy tribal grin aimed at the aboriginal camera.

The need for metaphors and
other murky means of
information have ended.
Why not come out and
say it, that the United
States government has been
lying,
abusing,
maiming,
misplacing,
killing,
creating its citizens
even before the first
frigid native placed a single frozen foot
in our conquered land.
By which I mean the terrible
authority of the United States
government is exactly the same
ancient authority that cursed Prometheus
for a flick of his bic.