Open Poem To John F. Kennedy

Open Poem To John F. Kennedy

Fallout
is the hormone
of the small town mind

a fallout shelter
is sex

that your shelter program
for every home owner
is sexing up the countryside
and killing us in the
bigcity bar.
If this is good
for the vitality
of the nation
(I mean that countryside
could stand some sex)
then Mr. President
you are a genius

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