Sock It To Us

Henceforth...

we are now stripped
of all past arrogance
and misguided pretense
of our tribe's thread superiority
from the impartial ravages
of the consistently insidious
natural unraveling process 

For it seems in the end
after all our proclamations
about national exceptionalism
we were nothing more
than a mushed up mountain
of mismatched socks
randomly strewn across the floor