A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,”
or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,
is washed, broke past fixing, and going to hell.
What kind of culture leaves the nerd un-girled,
his adolescent admirations pearled
into a prom-less sock while all the demoiselles
step out with jocks under the sway and spell
of the electric hearth within the heavy burled
wooden nineties TV cabinet?
What Bel-Air princes left their Carltons,
made virtues out of being cool and “fresh?”
America, your ruined children yet
call out for toys and tech and custom guns!
You need more H1-Bs from Bangladesh.