Disintegrating the USA

It's not that it won't hold 

in a world of bitcoin millionaires  

and tech billionaires and 

too  big to fail bankers, 

or a world with imaginary 

welfare queens and bad hombres 

and politicians  who actually did 

get their starts  on reality TV. 

The myth of merit- 

ocracy is not unlike the myth 

or rather the illusion of 

nobility, blue  blood, good hair, 

fake tits, corn  syrup, and affordable 

housing in  a city with a supposedly 

booming economy. In a country 

that conflates  wealth with God, 

merit, and intel

-ligence, it should 

not be surprising to find people 

signaling virtue after a natural 

disaster only to systematically 

vote to deprive others just like 

them of meaningful lives after 

the fires stop burning, after the 

flood waters recede into the dark-

ness of the abyss,  after all of the 

camera crews have packed up 

and gone home.