Hour One:  The Warm-Up

Check the vim and vigor,

hotel lobby at 6 am, CNN.

Morning breaks with panic

in Dallas.  Who shot the sheriff,

or tried to?  Bullet holes in the

window, in the windshield.

But all is well in Nebraska –

a place called Alliance.

Just a little morning fog,

some classics roll by for a car show –

no racist or homophobic terrorists in the tent,

as far as we know.

Say hallelujah – now we vent.