‘Power Thru’
Human robots at the 7-11 pimping
Prime Rib Flavored potato chips
In an election year
Whose mouth is full of dead beef
And between chokes
During the moments in which the gag reflex
Temporarily climbs its way
To the front line in the poles
Everything is said
And everything is contradicting
And the truth is kicked
Until unconscious
By a mobile unit
In charge of transporting white supremacist
Courting orange hair
Towards an earthworm scented army
Beneath a sun that sweats weathered anal beads
And horse glue
Ergo:
Another brand new day
Where it’s too early for anything
Especially interacting
With all these things that insist upon bouncing about
Pretending to be people
When all I want to do is pay for this diet Big Gulp
And swim back to the car
Because I’ve got a broken heart
And a xanex hangover
The size Donald Trump insists
His hands to be and not the actual size
That they are
And there’s a woman standing in the line beside me
Who’s talking in a stage voice
That’s being sued for divorce by the stage
And she’s going on about ‘kitty litter’
As if it’s the answer to everything
As if kitty litter’s gonna save us all
Giving advice to who goddamn knows
She was addressing her imagined Ted Talk towards her phone
The other end could’ve been empty
Or not empty, but for the sake of not giving up
On everything completely right now
Let’s assume the positive
She was talking to a friend who was fond of her
And not a dead phone that never gave a shit
But the thing is, I was only 15 minutes post exiting base camp
And already exhausted by people
But the kitty litter lady was interesting
So I decided to stick it out like I don’t always decide
To stick it out and instead of fleeing back to my futon
I remained in line listening to the kitty litter lady
Make her case for the miracle that is kitty litter
She said things like:
Put kitty litter in an empty paint bucket
If you want to prevent spiders from turning your backyard garden
Into 8 leg each multi-partner orgy sex motels
Your garage window is broken?
Put kitty litter on it.
Problem solved
You hurt your back?
Have you not been listening?
Kitty litter!
It’s a gift from an Ancient Aliens episode
That hasn’t even happened yet!
Believe it!
Kitty litter also prevents wrinkles
But the application process isn’t pretty
And:
If a child’s goldfish dies, bury it in kitty litter
Then sell the tank when the kids not looking
Because as great as kitty litter might be
It can’t make
Dead fish walk beneath water
Or the one who’s willingly left you
Come back
When they don’t want too
So: what else is going on?
Multiverse Johnson 