The same but so far apart

Ants running across the TV screen

Part of a zeitgeist I've never seen

Put their heads on a guillotine

Implied the owner of a Dairy Queen

The same but so far apart

The voting booth smelled of morning breath

A choice between people he's never met

How could he love? How could he have contempt?

Only if he was who they affect, which he's not

The same but so far apart

Four percent of the human race

Is represented by a flag in space

When the air is too hot to breathe

The first ones here will be the last to leave