yellow flowers
ray heinrich
there is no way to escape yellow flowers
they were here before us
and they'll be here after us
(unless the republicans pass that bill
funding research into anti-matter bombs)
but in the meantime
they're all over the hillsides
and they're appearing in all our advertisements
and they are always smiling
and sometimes
singing a cereal jingle
(while tony-the-tiger can only sneeze)
and they are harvested in bales
and burned to make energy to run TV transmitters
that are used to show more of them
and did i mention the hillsides?
total yellow flower hillsides
with enough pollen to choke bees
and pollinate anything female
so that all the children of everything
will become
yellow flowers
(well, i can think of worse)