american conclusion

when they found him,

he was swinging slowly in the

morning wind,

out behind the house

where he had been living

with his parents &

the child he’d had

with a girl

who was

elsewhere---

the little boy he left

had no idea that

his father had just made the decision

to avoid the struggle that inevitably follows

being diagnosed with cancer,

because he had no healthcare

or sufficient funds to even bother with

obama’s crumbs

flung from the

table.