Empathy is the
pressure relief valve
The breach of air in
the pipe humanity is mashed
Clogged and gasping
trillions
Saprotrophs evolved
to feed on desperation
Sequestered air
pocket billionaires
Profiteering off of
location-independent commerce
Iceberg submerged
global heater accounts
Commandeering
employment waiting rooms of lowest-denominator tax calculus
Line out the door
willing to labor more for a dollar less
Simply to eat GMO
soybeans and a spot in the show
Both armrests taken
at the theater
Loud noises distract
the mathematics of rushing the gunmen
Terrorists rise
within the audience
Pawing god from the
popped kernels
Beneath the seats
planting blame
In the ticket-buyers
who do not provide soil to germinate
Copyright papyrus
about salvation and damnation
Oil and cancer,
skin-tone and harmonic dissonance
Disembodiment rights
to take in discomfort
Expectation of a
firearm in the maw of a hoodie
Vomited out after
the police overseer writes a report
Rembrandt’s Nights
Watch ivory brandished rifles
About who made the
first quick-movement
Rationalized lords
of flies ignoring the encompassing box, the tube
The train cars and
Plessy and Parks and London Calling seven-seven
The rats and cheese
and IMF and OPEC and NYSE and BP
The stench of
stuffed Gouda in Cayman Switzer-lands
Holes for FACTA
world agreements global progressive wealth taxation
To recognize
capitalism has leukemia in the marrow
The skeleton has
lifted under the whip of extracted profit
To create the most
efficient state of delivering food, shelter, clothing, and medicine
In the state of our
species, but done so with threating Bronchogenic carcinomas
Tumors in
bronchioles sprouting in the microscopic notion of how much is enough
To take a moment to
breathe, to allow muscle over the femurs to rest
The blood to still
the haze of a mushed plow and recognize the shared crop
But the radiation
monetizes the mono-product cycles crate after roll
Squared and cylindrical
prison of labor demonizing collectivism for a fish hook
Barbed with the worm
that came before you in a chain of film-buffs
Uncertain of which
end is the mouth or the anus gumming the sugar and fat
Trained tongues to
salivate at the screen flicker marketed
Taught to question
the sunlight’s glare as taunting the edge of the herd
To be the wildebeest
at the perimeter of the circle
Tossed from nudging
to the idealism of center
Like a mammalian
mother’s nipple
Parched of milk and
wandering on the outskirts
Willing to risk
staring the wizardry of the lion in the incisor
The pierce that motivates
the globe to dance hoof and pelt
The legislative cockiness
audacity of Prima Noctae
Where the lioness
hunts and the mane-bearer feeds
Pale-faced painted
in the blood of black buffalo and red antelope
Masticating bone in
a short intestinal track shitting out hair and skull
Fertilizing
negligible scat panicking forests into blazing stampedes
To fell trunks for
fields of bodies piled on bodies
Stewed grass-eaters
for ad-campaigns of meat-eater pride
Of you-can-be-a
member rallies for elephants
Trumpeted with
ivory-tusk megaphones and mahogany stages
Unstamped by the FSC
exchanged for the SEC to label legal
To take this land is
your land away from Guthrie back to Trump
Beach Havens
segregation depletion of affordable housing
For air b and b’s
uncontrolled rents have the worms live in the dirt
Heart life cycle
four generations, great-grandmother holding great-grandson
In a wheel chair
both eyes unable to open, but awake
One arm of eldest
meets her daughter wide-eyed smiling
With granddaughter
post maternity clean and standing
Tree photosynthesis
and seeds, fear and love
Diet pressures of
what is pertinent to make a child into an adult
Mined Tantalite for
an iPhone global connection
To hold water
flowing off Congo into China into Chicago
A President for the
Southside white socked to feed the cubs that grow up into bears
Omnivorous besotted
in caves hibernating in a dragon’s bounty
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