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Tinker-Tinker-Me

Christopher Hanson

I wake up and turn me on
With my cereal and the news.
“Fluff” gives way to
“Doom,”
And back to “fluff”
Covered with sugar
And marshmallows –
Fruit-looped,
Literally and metaphorically.
I close my eyes
With each bite
And rock slowly to the
Destruction
As if waiting
For the sky to fall –
Breaking news
For the broken chicken-little,
The end.
The END!
END ALREADY!!!
I’d go if I could,
Far and further away,
Like Neil and Jack,
Taking to the road,
A would and could be
Path
Both far and from
The synthesized sadness
Of radios, TVs, commercials
And the how we should “be”
Of it all.
It’s when the gas is gone
And the sun returns,
That the dreams dreamt of money
May cease,
Life may begin,
Leaving me invulnerable,
All of us,
Invulnerable
And with power once more –
Free.

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