Nightmareica is the sometimes anguished, frequently sarcastic, often ironic, response to America’s political and social absurdities by Michael Baldwin, a former professor of American Government, civil rights activist, and concerned citizen. His critical and satirical poetry powerfully illuminates how American government has been usurped by Big Business and the ultra-wealthy to serve their own interests rather than the common good. Meanwhile the average citizen is distracted from considering real political and economic issues by addictive but frivolous technologies, by fabricated social problems that divide us into opposing factions, and by cynical wars that are required to keep us uber-patriotic and our weapons industries humming. Like the frog contentedly allowing itself to be boiled alive, Americans continue to work, drug, drive, and gun themselves to death, while telling themselves and being told by their billionaire masters that they are the freest and most privileged people in history. This is a wake-up call presented not in a dry factual essay or statistical charts, but in poetry that finds your mind like a sharp knife.