NSA

Let’s just hand over the water coolers
to the spies.  Let’s see them
try to process all the loose words.

In a place born for free speech
why are we all so terrified that someone
might be listening to it?

Let’s get over it.  Let’s
talk louder.  Let’s not relent
at all; talk about everything

at once.  Mention your
bowel movements in the same breath
as your passionate defense

of the right to violate a law
in pursuit of justice beyond it.
Give breakfast cereals credit

for insider trading.  Describe your car
as the perfect example of style so wild
it terrorizes the road under it.  

Don’t capitulate: overwhelm.
They won’t know what to do
with a firehose narrative.  If by chance

they come for you, laugh at them.
We’ll laugh with you, all of us.  Laughter
is the war they’ll never win.