This is a straightforwardly patriotic poem.
It's called "Pledge of Allegiance."
"In a room full of books, there is nothing I want to read.
I'm a true American.
Glut makes me hungry.
I feed the fire another log.
Lightning on its one leg thumps across the fields.
I should never have given myself this power.
Also, I'm tired of accusing myself,
tired of flaring through doorways like an exploding dog.
When light is on the water, I bite water.
I want to lick anything cold.
I want to rest my nose on a stone.
So I walk into the war every morning,
as a man enters an elevator.
I rise like the red spine of a thermometer.
We bomb them again and again.
I wake from a long sleep, going the long way home
around a nightmare.
I wake up waiting for dusk.
I want to watch the Holsteins coming in,
and the Amish couples.
This is my country.
Please don't ask me to kill you for it."