Exceptionalism 101

What if all of this

is for nothing? she mused

out loud. What if

we never find answers

to the big questions?

What if the man

we taught how to fish

dies of mercury poisoning?

It’s the American Way,

he replied. You need

some stronger bootstraps,

is all. Get the hell up.

For Peggy’s prompt to the Real Toads: FISH