Murder me with “extra” cheese
Shackled in double plastic,
Blind me with three-sixty screens
Blinking “FREE!”
“TODAY!”
“FANTASTIC!”
Deafen me with mounted speakers
Cannon-blasting a concession hall,
Numb my thumbs
with console games
and pay-pads
wall-to-wall.
Slice me through with radio-waves
And cook my brain on a phone;
Choke my air with
wi-fi hot-spots,
Billboards,
crowd lines,
drones;
Melt my teeth with bleach-white
Flour,
sugar,
citric acid,
Salted
syrups,
powdered
spirits:
Saturate me passive.
Fill my mouth with taglines
And empty my bowels with quips,
Plunge my veins with panic, fervor:
“SALE!”
“APOCALYPSE!”
Pour me
wide-eyed
into engines.
Feed me
smiling
through machines.
Shape me,
use me,
end me—
Just don't
ask me
what it means.