Redneck

My neck is red

Redneck!

Maybe it happened whilst sitting on the river bank
filling-in time

Or whilst on the phone to my mother
hearing her telling me foreigners are to blame

The television told her so

Or driving myself insane
thinking ‘bout isolation
militarization
the office “high & tight”

The superman athlete
gunning his precision-guided road bike

The mobilisation of language
Compound-nouns
Acronyms with hyphenated initial sound

Enmity and competition
Superiority, degradation

How did it come around?

I heard a story once
about a world where people lived together