squeamish age of <br />offensive nature <br />minority squeal, color-we-normalcy <br />Civil rights? The right to be civil? <br />Be civil to what? <br />CHURNING STOMACH! <br />(churnchurnchurn…washing machines <br />eating neckties) <br />acidic tongues <br />hydrochloric protestations of maltreatment <br />(“We the people” we, of course, meaning <br />The Privileged Few) <br />slang epitaphs/fouled HCL d-d-d-dripping <br />scalding hearts <br />soulcombustion <br />red-white-blue discoloration <br />neon stars, malicious stabbings <br />Screams! <br />(Civil Wrongs?)<br /><br />Abby Koning<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hydrocholeric/
