it’s impossible to tell
if it is fireworks
or gunshots
until you feel
the back of your head
explode

patriotic
or plain
psychotic
is in the
many faceted eye
of the beholder

so
if you see a man
in his boxers
screaming
the sky is falling
with a tin foil hat

he could be
going through some things
or maybe
just maybe
he knows something
you don’t