Consumption

whose bias is best?
or whose best presented
remains the question upon viewing
the story of stuff

...

i share in her vision
of the giant boycott.
this american man
seems corporate livestock.

with flat plastic udder,
he's bound to dispense
his magnetic milk
with swipes of his strip.

at the mall where he works
he's the shepherd of flocks.
he herds them through line
with selling points for a crook,

and upon leaving the pasture
willfully he submits
to other shepherd's ministrations.
they'll stroke at his teat

'til he's wetting his weight
in milk magnetic,
all he can give and
it's making him sick.

this tubercolosis is cloying
as it fills the air
like smoke from a fire
that burns every dollar

to power the engine
of mechanized bliss.
we walk in a dreamland
made real with a price.