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Very Low
Sodium Pentathol
they were
cloning the great black bears of the US
and the Senate began making Planet
of the Apes videos
a part of every classroom
as a lesson to us all
but no one got it
and only the great hairy dumb ones stayed after
to
help the teacher erase the tapes
Fay's
Brand Quality
the drug store
began selling dogs and kittens
trying to compete with the known world
everybody comes in and doesn't buy anything
but thinks how awful it is for
these poor things
in the eye of everyone and just born to be bred
fed
the dry stuff every day, no room to run, love,
every bowel moment behind
stained glass
everybody comes in, glad now
they don't have to go all
the way to the mall
to feel this way
Lee
Gechas, Managing Ed.
tries to make
her understand, she's 87
"We only take environmental poetry here."
"What?"
"Ma'am, we only take environmental poetry,"
little louder
she nods and beckons him
his heart breaks, she's old, he
follows her out
there, so, beneath the token parking lot tree,
she
scratches the rhyme in the dirt and he's forced to accept it |
