Day 2

Lima Beans

Jordan Jones

“If some would like to turn this into class warfare, I,
that’s not how I think: I think about the overall economy.”

— George W. Bush, 1/2/2003

The lines for free food in Lima,
Ohio stretch half
                              around the block.

Just after Christmas, your unemployment
insurance dried out
like the tree you couldn’t afford
                              but bought anyway.

               Standing in line, you imagine
Ken Lay’s mansion.
                              The greed pyramid
& millions of simple
                              retirements, like yours,
collapsed and burnt in Manhattan.

When you return home, your t.v.
shows the flashy graphics of Crisis
                              in the Gulf, the sequel,
but there’s no class
                              warfare in the mind
                              of the President.
Aren’t you glad?

Day 2