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SHOPPING CART OF LIFE
Shopping cart of life
sounds too much likie
a bad 80’s song
but I’m Philly born
so I’ll ride that cart
thru the malls
and parking lots
no point in filling the cart
like a tapeworm
it consumes everything
continually hungering for more
stick to renewable
stick to reusable
as the void can
never be filled
and only a fool thinks
the cart can be filled
to be satisfied
Ah, yes. We are human, but
Ah, yes. We are human, but are raised to be tapeworms, indeed. Tapeworms via messaging from the t/v, tapeworms via messaging at school, tapeworms via, now, the internet. Tapeworms via sports, politics and "the arts publica". Does the cure therefore kill us, as it does the tapeworm? Or is humanity still alive within, and ready to walk free of the outer tapeworm skin?
then again, maybe we are the
then again, maybe we are the tapeworms of the planet.