Foreign Policy

because
we like our lettuce
crisp, cold
and white.

because beef
is always what’s for dinner.

because we believe
we like Mexican food
because we’ve made tacos.

because we couldn’t tell
an Apache from an accountant
if we heard them but we still think
we could.

because we miss
riding and roping.

because we haven’t
killed a whale in a while.

because caribbean cruises
don’t take us too far from home.

because it’s ten miles
from here to work
and the train is so
dirty.

because
the night time is
the right time to
turn on the lights
and stay up till dawn.

because some of us
will never have
to learn another language.

because grillz, rims,
scooters, nines,
leathers, bedliners, cowboy hats
and headwraps
are so much fun to sell.

because a desert holds
bones and bike tracks for a long time
without decaying them.

because
lakes look like postcards.

because
we don’t have to go anywhere because
it’s all right here.

because we can sleep when we want.

because
fairytales always say
“…happily ever after”
only after someone’s been
dismembered by red-hot
pincers.