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33 lines Rick Duffey

 

 

 

 

 

BEHIND THE CURTAIN

 

 

 

 

 

Veronica hates Archie

Who is hated by Betty

For whom Jughead represents

 

An ampersand gone amok

& Richie Rich won’t appear

It’s all comical bookends

 

Bad ink in place of color

Archie hates all of Betty

Not just her blonde pony tail

 

Veronica ain’t normal

Red hair with all those hatch lines

That stuff ain’t normal either

 

It’s worse than Lois & Clark

Worse than Satan & Milton

Archie wakes up each morning

 

& vomits up for his lunch

Whatever’s going around

In Riverdale High School

 

Which isn’t so much high school

As a concentration camp

Where they put all the white kids

 

From all North America

Until they never grow up

Or until they switch over

 

To survivors from Krypton

Beware of green rocks that glow

Or go back to Riverdale

 

Which is not river or dale

It’s only America

Digesting America

 

For whatsoever that’s worth

That’s all it ever can be

God’s mercy upon the rest