Lot's Wife

When we were young, my uncle

Would buy us nosebleed seats

To the Vikings games,

And I remember asking him,

“Why do we call them that?

Is it because of the altitude?”

And he laughed and said “No,

It’s because when the game ends

Men begin to throw punches and scream.”

Twelve years later when the

Eagles won the semifinals,

Sports fans went wild,

And men went home

Bleeding.

But so what? We like violence.

We love to watch cities burn.

We the people

Are the pillars of salt

That keep this blood-drenched Coliseum

From caving in.