After 12 hours of fast food and freeways, I reached the outskirts of Columbia, South Carolina. I pulled over to the side of the road and checked my map. This couldn't be right. No way a professional lady wrestler's school would be stuck in a little suburban neighborhood like this. But there it was, amidst the single-story ranchers, the block-long Moolah Drive.

A rainbow of rubberbands

twisted into your beard,

you housebroke

George “The Animal” Steele,

Vernon “Ernie” Cervid turned five years old.

By the Chinese zodiac, the Year of the Ox. Ronald Reagan was sworn in for his second term as president.

Please proceed, Governor.

--Barack Obama

Gentlemen, come on and spread the wealth.

Pass those bills and then we’ll pass around

our binders full of women on the shelf.

muscles cut from

Michelangelo’s David

and Plato’s retreat

in a symposium

of Greek boys

and Oxford dons

This essay has a lot going

for it: clear and cogent details,

story arc convinces, prevails

over lost fragments, arguing

well enough.

loveth thy neighbor

but not as much as yourself!

christ was no commie

It was a scandal and he was guilty, and it would follow the Washington script—the leak, the investigation, the camera flashes.

“Deny everything,” Senator Rockwell’s advisors told him when the first word came in.

I think it's cute when people make a special move to inform themselves about politics. When being informed about the state of the country and the world requires an investment of their time.