PAD Chapbook Challenge Day 22

Poetic Asides prompt for today: Write a poem with the title "Mr. _______" or "Mrs. _________", "Ms. _______", "Dr. ___________", etc. I'm submitting this without much comment, except to say there are days I am passionate about what's going on, and days I just feel like this:

Mr. and Mrs. America and All the Ships at Sea

don't want to hear your media blitz,

don't want to watch breaking news at this hour,

don't care much for either side of the story,

and the farther out to sea they are, the better.

Mr. and Mrs. America want to take a ship

to some lush remote island

where radio and TV never made landfall,

where burnout is not a thing,

and they'd like to spend one blissful month -

a year, even -

without worrying how their country will end,

without worrying how their world will end.