Burning Down The House

After the fires
go out,
after

they’ve consumed
the capital,
there’s nothing left,

but an ashen desert.
It looks
like the

bombed out cities
of Iraq.
You see,

democracy
makes everybody
equal.

Dubya steps up
to a melted
microphone

and proclaims
that
we are

much safer now
than we were
before

we took out
Saddam
Hussein.

Dubya’s face
is as black
as his suit,

his burnt smile
falls from
his face

and you see
the
closing credits.

Screenplay
by
Reyes Cardenas.

Directed
by
Reyes Cardenas.

Dubya
played
by Reyes Cardenas.

The flying saucer
was played
by Los Pachucos.*

The soldiers
who were melted away
by Gort

were played
by the soldiers
we’ve lost in Iraq.

*Los Pachucos are Los Pachucos And La
Flying Saucer published in Caracol from my
novella from the 1970’s. A female flying saucer
lands on the westside of San Antonio,her huge
breasts are exposed and the saucer is discovered
by pachucos and their rucas, and so on.