he was spitting
political pearls
like teeth
as if he were
flossing
w/barbed wire
he says hey
you’re just a drunkard
too lazy to change the world
and I tell him
I used to be you man
the same way
someone once told me
that they
used to be me
I said
how can you vote
for someone that you know
will lose
then I remembered
I’m a liberal
in Texas