by J. T. Grogan
rolling down the asphalt trail
an ersatz man
buried in a smogbox
of steel fiberglas and rubber
mouthful of plastic trubyte teeth
munching a tru-luv candy bar
made of butylated hydroxyanisole
calcium propionate
hydrogenated strontium 90
and vanillin an artificial flavoring
on his eyeballs
small plastic disks
ground to prescription
for to see the nook better
earful of earphone
connected by umbilical wire
to small black cigarette package
crammed with transistors & twang & luuvvv
mind awash with librium
and tv radio adslogans
all sloshing around together
precipitating inanity into the void
on his soul a label
26% nylon 31% dacron 43% polyethylene
wash in lukewarm pepsicola
dry away from heat or sunlite
made in u.s.a.
Forum Literary Magazine 