People today are too stupid to breathe
Modern persons in this country
Are like that old wive’s tale
About turkeys drowning in the rain
Because they are too stupid to
Stop drinking the rain
It’s a dumb idea, born of dumb people
Who listen to dumb things
They heard from other dumb people
Turkeys, as any decent hunter will tell you,
Are notoriously difficult to hunt
You can get reasonably close to them
If you’re unarmed;
Not too close, but close enough to
Admire them
But pull out a rifle or a handgun
And watch them scatter
Go looking for them after that,
Good luck
Set up a hunting blind to still-hunt them,
You’ll be waiting for a while,
A long while
Stalk them,
You’ll be walking a long way,
For a long time,
Trying not to snap twigs
And rustle leaves
So, how is it that a supposedly
“Dumb” bird
Knows what a shotgun is?
Or a .308 rifle, .30-06, 35 caliber?
Why does a bird you eat at Thanksgiving
Show no alarm if you suddenly
Whip out a stick and wave it around,
But when you pull out a
Smith and Wesson .38,
It takes off
You telling me that’s dumb?
Now, modern Americans…
I can easily picture them
Drowning in the rain
Now, I’m not saying that
Smart Americans don’t have plenty of
Good reasons for wanting to die,
For wanting to tune out
After all, the smart ones are
Surrounded
By idiots who are ready, willing, and able
To swamp the boat
For everyone
Those who worship the opinions
Of people who make
Billions of dollars a year, but
Have no compassion or empathy
I mean, if you also
Make billions of dollars per year,
And you regard the people
Who helped you get there
As pests to be managed,
Then sure, you should probably listen,
When some other vapid cunt
Who makes billions per year
Speaks
But if you make less than
A hundred grand per year,
And most people do,
Regardless of what Google tells you,
And if you genuinely believe
In things like reciprocity and loyalty,
Then maybe don’t listen
To sociopaths?
I don’t know,
Call me crazy
Maybe the guy who made billions
Off the backs of average people,
And regularly threatens
To fire them, should they miss a few days,
Because they were sick,
Or because they were late a few times,
Or because they tried to unionize,
Maybe that guy isn’t your friend?
Mr. and Mrs. Blue Collar America?
Seems to me,
That to believe that a billionaire
Is capable of thinking about
What’s good for anyone
Other than themselves,
Well, you would have to be
Just about as stupid
As a bird that tries to drink rain
Until it drowns
Except, such birds don’t exist
If they did, they’d have gone extinct
A long time ago
That kind of behavior is not what
Evolution regards as being
“Selected for”
But poor people
Believing in “Trickle Down Economics,”
Now, that is a real thing
Because a movie star told them;
Not just a movie star,
But also a TV star;
Not just a movie and TV star,
But also “the prehzidehnt
Uv tha Yoonyted Staytes”
That was forty years ago
Things have gotten much worse since then
But these things take time
Should start “trickling down”
Any day now
Just like the rain down a
Turkey’s neck
Americans, most of them,
Are in fact, too stupid to breathe
They detest bad news and
Pesky facts
Shoot the messenger,
Not the problem, itself
Trust the guy who commits
To the lies
Look down your nose at the ones who
Try to give you health insurance
And education
The rains are coming
Sky’s cloudy and dark,
Winds picking up
A lot of people are soon going to be found
Lying out in the open,
In the woods, on the streets,
In their backyards, on football fields,
In parks and playgrounds and
Parking lots
Dead
Drowned
Reasonable people will have tried
To warn them
That’s not rain “trickling down”
In gushes and torrents
That’s the streaming urine
Of people who will make
More money, today, alone
Than you will in your lifetime
Much more
Billionaires are, as the British say,
“Taking the piss”
On average Americans
And everyday Americans
Are eating it up
Or rather,
Drinking it down
And since they can’t sustain themselves
On a steady stream of
Billionaire piss
They’ll drown
Too stupid to stop drinking
Too stupid to breathe
Turns out,
That behavior is
“Selected against”
©2026 Kevin Trent Boswell
Kevin Trent Boswell 