Beef patty
mutating into a hamburger
and the fast food processed
meat is sinking into
more apocalyptic visions
from the Bible
We are still trying to find
the gang war bullet
lodgedsomewhere in a dying Puritan consciousness
which is why
the next middle school social
studies class trip
will be to the nursing homewhere
the kids who speak English
with a Caribbean patois
or a Spanglish accent
can get a valuable
hands on lesson in history
by pulling the plug
on the machinerykeeping alive an old brain dead
Yankee tradition
and to ensure
that memos continue
in the sterilized cubicles
that must get wiped
here come the corps
of West Indian women
who will achieve
the American Dream
by taking courses
at the community college
to become nurses
for a culture
that has crashed into a coma
Code:
blue
code:
redand when
you get to the white
that means the cosmic
dissolve
of the previous generation has begun
losing shapeform
before settling into a mud
that will yield
no footprints
or bones
that can ever be fossilized
into wasteful fuel
Frozen
is how the rest of us
will keep from rotting
in ice-cube tray
insurance offices
counting up
the numerous ways
a 21st Century American can die
counting
everything except the death
that will be our isolatedanonymousown
