Chronicle of American Madness

( A Poem a Day, Everyday for 30 Days — Day #20)

Image by Gary Ullah from Pixabay

The year jello was invented

Teletubbies, pet rocks

Adopt a highway

Semi automatic hand guns

When everyone longed for the 50s

Reality TV stars

Trump & those who believe he’s a good businessman

The War on Drugs

Manifest Destiny

The Great War

Slavery

The trickle-down theory

The year the war ended by dropping bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Arming school teachers

Disneyland, Disney world and Main Street, USA

Also the Mall of America, and Las Vegas

The first world and the third world

Ayds Diet candy, lite, fat-free, Coke Zero

The American Dream

Corporate personhood and family values

War bonds

The Kardashians

Cheez Whiz and Marshmallow Crème (with and without the accent)

Kraft products

Using K instead of C to spell words like Krazy

The domino theory

Miracle whip

The moral majority

The year everything trickled down

Here’s why I started writing a poem a day:

A Poem A Day, Every Day, for A Month: How Poetry Can Make You a Better Writer

It was inspired in part, by another experiment I began at the beginning of the year, which was doing a drawing a day. Here’s what I learned from doing that:

A sketch a day, everyday for a month: What I’ve learned so far

Here’s yesterday’s poem:

Love Rites