only in America

outside Salem's walls,
'the Swamp Witch' keeps
'the swamp watch...'
and keeps the cauldron bubbling
all night long

to feed the men
coming in like magnets
from city mind-scapes
that never sleep,

but ever glow
and ever sow
and ever reap

Silicon Valley 'Heads'
high on grass
gaze listlessly
up out of moon roofs

at absinthe-mottled 'starry nights,'
at sky-scraper blocks
inscribed in every
race and creed

there is no more-
there is no need