Transnational Humor

The joke being:

I left my country

so that I may

study my country

in a vast,

cold country

that gives money to the men

who are the very reason I left my country.

The joke being: once, I wanted to want to be American, to think nothing

of the taxes on my sandwich, paying for a pilot to bomb a country

far away, and alien, and hot, and mysterious. I wanted to become a man

from nowhere, hence everywhere. I wanted the world to be a country

I can watch from afar on my porch, say: what a wonderful time to be alive

in this country.