The best and brightest, 

American Exceptionalism, 

Rising above in a rocket blast of red-white-and-blue, 

Flavortown. 

Houston we have zero problems. 

You use the metric system? 

Fuck you 

Metric system doesn’t land on the moon,

Or get you to Flavortown.

Kid Rock and Roman candles and Beef & Cheddars and Coca-Cola and Harley-Davidson.

Our guide is a spiky haired blessed profit leading us, onward,

To Flavortown. 

 J.B. Stevens lives in the southeastern United States with his wife and daughter. He is a crime fiction writer, poet, memoirist, and book reviewer. He won Mystery Tribune’s inaugural micro fiction contest. His work has been published by Thriller Magazine, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, and many others. He can be found online at jb-stevens.com and on Twitter @iamjbstevens.