Leaving San Francisco

Back to the real world,
Where everyone is white
And Baptist or Catholic
And fervently sure
Ronald Reagan was
another name for Jesus,
where the land’s as flat
as the people’s lives,
where marijuana’s not medicine
but crank and beer are,
where gay men and lesbians
stay in their places
and don’t shove their sex
into straight faces,
where those with certain eyes
are automatically Chinese
and work in restaurants
with rice and sweet-n-sour,
where those with brown skin
are automatically Mexicans
and dig ditches or make tacos
and somehow take away jobs
while also on welfare and
selling drugs and making babies
who’ll do the same damn same,
and God Bless the U.S.A.
as it bombs and kills the world
for not being Americans
and anyone who doesn’t like that
can just Love It or Leave It,
and everyone’s waiting
for the Rapture
but never experiencing it
when it’s all around,
like people occasionally do
in a few other places
which aren’t all San Francisco,
but, hey, you know, it’s One.