an example for you to follow
john sweet
i came to this country
hundreds of years ago
to butcher the indians
and steal their land
and eat their bleeding meat
by a campfire
under a million unnmaed stars
i came to enslave everybody
and invent the atomic bomb
and agent orange
and to raise a generation
of screaming crack babies
i came to rape helpless children
and bury them in autumn fields
i came to produce color movies
and top forty albums
and to build monuments
to myself
i came to burn witches
and to shoot senior citizens
at ponderosas everywhere
i came to be a freeway killer
and cult leader
and to eat the hearts out of
screaming angel-faced virgins
i came to drop acid
and smoke pot
and beat my wife every friday
night
i came to set an example
for you to follow