The American Dream
The American Dream-
A short-lived fantasy.
A nightmare-
Of suburban filth:
of plastic forks
and paper plates.
A plastic life-
a conveniently
disposable reality.
The apple pie is rotten.
sprayed with poison
to look pretty
in the store.
I choke on the air
tainted by the minivans
for the 2.5 kids,
the dog, the cat, the lawn.
Trapped in a box
and racing the clock-
Future generations
will be impaled
on the white picked fence.
