WASP guilt

White Anglo Saxon Protestant
We Are Superior People

Woops Arrogance Sucks Pus

We Are Sorry People
We Apologize So Please
What Appalls Sometimes Placates
What Angers Sometimes Pleasures

We Are Sometimes Pigs
We Are Sometimes Pagans

We Are Seeking Peace

We Also Stroke Penises
Wading Along Silent Ponds
What Astonishing Sexual Pleasure
We Are Sexual People
We Aren't Simply Penitents

We Are Spurning Parentage
We Are Slipping Perhaps

We Adore Simple Pleasures
We Are Simple People

Who Ascribes Superior Practices?

Why Assume Snotty Pretentiousness?

We Are Shy People
We Are Supervised People
We Are Sullen People

We Are Sending Payment
We Always Send Payment

We Are Scum Paying
Whatever All Scum Pay
We Are Scum Praying
What All Scum Pray

We Are Saying Piss
We Are Saying Prick

We Approach Serious Profanity
We Ask Severe Punishment
We Anticipate Silent Prayer
Walking Alone Savoring Pain

--Carl Miller Daniels (This poem appeared in Chiron Review, Vol. XIII, #4, Winter 1994.)