China:
Tiger mom whipping her
mass-manufactured children
as they drown in
polluted waters.
USA:
Trust-fund fratboy
partying himself
brain-dead
into a blackout of
bankruptcy.
Britain:
Prestigious butler
apologizing for being a regrettable
snob
while looking down
his nose at you.
Japan:
Dojo master
serving green tea
with a crippled fist.
France:
Five-star chef fixing food
without gloves,
deriding
barbaric finger-food
as he picks his nose.
Russia:
KGB agent camouflaged
in
Punk-Rock protester clothing,
shouting scripted lines
and lobbing
molotovs
for the State News cameras.
Mexico:
Coyote smuggler shoving
migrant families
into the
pews
of the Roman Catholic Church.
Germany:
A Nazi commander conquering
Non-Aryan people
by invite-invading refugees
into his own
overcorrecting country.
Sweden:
Overqualified
viking
leading IKEA raids
into
world-wide living rooms.
Australia:
Dead man walking
with a blithe attitude
toward countless open graves
dotting the outback hellscape.
South Africa:
Biracial man who
wreathes his own neck
with
a burning tire.
Canada:
Metrosexual lumberjack
caught in a love/hate triangle with
his loudmouthed next-door neighbor
and his
snooty French cousin.
Thailand:
Small lady-boy
sassing
the overbearing
dragon-lady madame.
Saudi Arabia:
A chic sheik soccer fan
with a handful of
scarlet letter stones
for the halftime show.
Iran:
Imam admonishing young men
to wave the
stars and stripes
to fan the flames faster.
Switzerland:
Banker sitting in complacent
neutrality,
his coffers replete with the
blood money
from wars he had proudly
divested himself from.
Israel And Palestine:
Stepbrothers warring over
space,
their bunk-beds
too close together,
their hearts
too far apart.
Antarctica:
Shoggoth writhing
within the ice caves,
sick of eating
Emperor penguins
and of
human drama.
Tangleroot And Tressknot 