I wasn’t born
jaded
and never got there later,
either.

Like my job (more or less),  a beer
and a dumb movie on Friday,
NASCAR on a Sunday,
sex anytime.

Will argue politics
but just for fun,
believing in my heart
in live and let live
as long as I get to
do the same, figure it’s all
screwed for most of us in
the long run and all you can do
is stay under the radar
and pay the bills
as long as you can. 
I know some can’t,
been there more than once myself,
probably will again,
but I always
come up for air.

Imagine:
all of this can be done and said
unironically.  If you can’t
see that, if that’s your nightmare,
if you forget that there
are more people like me
than not in this country,
you will not change this world
in my lifetime.  Some of the big dreams
are meant to stay dreams,
I believe that.  I’m glad you think
otherwise and I’ll help
when I can, but right now

my son’s crying,
and I’ve got to go.