THE OXYGEN CATASTROPHE
Infiltration by capitalists results
in the rising poor doomed to invisibility
like a recessive gene at the bottom of a map.
The dictionary provides the word for today:
legerdemain: feeling as if magically possessed
by handiwork; an incantatory dullness.
Reaching for a familiar stigma, you may feel
unnerved by the vitality of many bad decisions.
“Don’t neglect a routine colonoscopy,” you are told,
but the voice inside your head screams back,
“of the soul.” Then, guilelessly, greed appears,
disrobes, and takes a dip in the excess pool.
Together, we watch decadent time downshift into first, see,
with nefarious envy, the formative eye the summative, and
hear a faulty wind-farm propeller begin demurely to squeal.