Sitting in a Parisian café in San Diego’s South Park
sipping café au lait as cars, cabs and buses
crisscross this intersection of the world
while we, young and old, sit in virtual reality
marking time while we march to the brink
where casino crony capitalists dig a deeper ditch
for America to fall into histories grave yard
of fallen empires:
Persian, Greek, Roman, Ottoman, British, Soviet
as a blinding sun rises in the East