Mall Rats and Slackers

 

I write for the highly literate reader.

There aren’t very many of them.

If they were successful, they would read

more books, and thus become even weirder

and more atypical.  America watches television,

and television doesn’t get better, it gets slicker.

We are on a slippery slope.  We are disappearing up

our own assholes.  Who knows this?  Who will tell us?

Where will he say it?  In the public square?  Philippics,

jeremiads, and pasquinades.  The pasquinade was a satirical verse

hung on the statue of Pasquino in the shopping mall.

Ha ha, there weren’t any.  Mall rats and slackers

of the world, unite.  You have nothing to lose

but your skateboards and video games.

Update your Facebook profile.

On your wrist-radio camera-telephone.

Bookworms, I hail you at the end of

a great career.  Members of the Buzzard Cult.

High-one-, low-two-figures.

 


 

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