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From David to the Pharmaceutical Goliaths
To Whom It May Concern
Please bring to market-battle
a pill for Anomie.
We’ve got one for everything else.
Everyday in my inbox, promises of penile enhancement
Funny word–more penal system or pianist
than male sex organ.
OK, Mr. Merck, if your impotent market research
shows declining demand for doping
unrest and alienation (personal and societal)
How about diverting a [...]
This One Isn’t About You Either, or, $1.77
I know I said I’d write one about you
one day
or worse, promised someone else would
outsourced the fitting flattering descriptions,
a touch of the flowery, never crossing the
line you use to protect yourself from aesthetes.
I apologize for my cowardice.
Now will you say you’re sorry
for keeping those at arms length
who have [...]
My Lighthouse Smoke Detector Goes All Night Long
I will never forget how you looked at me
Your moment of realization as pained
as a punch to the gut as clear as cut crystal
untouched by my sweaty hairy-nuckled paw
empty of the whiskey that gives it purpose
Just 15 minutes earlier you greeted me
with barefaced enthusiasm!
like a daughter whose Dad [...]
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