This Year I Watched The Game In The Middle of the Night on My Birthday
canned corn
or cold cream?
her toenails smiled like cigarettes, screaming
the highways griddled
with jam band bumper stickers
and road kill
and tonight
honestly,
I can’t tell which is worse
dick balm
or Donald Trump?
not dick balm, obviously
Trump is the price humanity pays
for allowing their fear and hate
to make them gullible
at least the dick balm’s trying to be helpful
“There’s something wrong with my dick, doc.”
“Yeah, that looks weird, all right. I’ll write you
a prescription for some balm. It won’t read
like Dostoevsky, but it’ll help”
Tonight I pledge allegiance to dick balm,
goddamn it, because dick balm’s almost never lied to us
and refuses to set up a Twitter account
and Trump’s just some rich daddy’s boy sh-muck
who walks around running his mouth
like somebody taught herpes how to speak
the truth is a small boat surrounded by pitchforks
slinging icebergs
and the sharks circling the catastrophes below
are fat because there’s a lot of calories
in deep frying democracy
and human flesh gets fatty
as it’s leaking its own blood
Maybe, I don’t know, but:
These sharks,
they’re all rushing their assistants to the printers
to add Oligarch, etc in the corners of their new
business cards and naming their goddamn first born
‘Donald, Jr.’
I portend, that
in the near future hair gel
will be considered more American
than ketchup
our damage lingers against the details
and while we’re temporarily on the subject
of details,
Hey there, skyline!
what’s going on?
your gladiolas don’t seem happy
to see me
Did you know that last week at some point
it was my birthday, and for my late night birthday movie
I was going to watch Planet Of The Apes
but then all of a sudden at the last possible second
I switched it up
and watched David Fincher’s “The Game”
instead, because I’d remembered in The Game
it was also Michael Douglas’ birthday
I bet you didn’t know that, hell
I learned something new that night too
I learned that I’m now only one year younger
than Michael Douglas’s character was
in The Game
Full disclosure:
I’m not really sure what I’m supposed to do
with that information right now
but for absolutely nothing
and also a multiverse of ridiculous reasons
it freaks me out
Multiverse Johnson 