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Laissez Les Bon Temps Roullez. I let them roll for years until the night grabbed me by the throat. Now, I meditate and write. I was in a foul temper last week. To wit,

We're trying to get enough money to die.

I got fooled again by that painted harlot.

She's on every street corner.

Every church.

Every ecstatic potentiality.

This is the reality we adore.

The painted harlot.

So beautiful.

Such promise.

Sell your frying pan

With unfettered glee on TV.

And when 20 minutes of free enterprise

Concludes it's pitch.

Back to the news.

"22 DIE IN A BOWLING ALLEY."

Break for another commercial message

Painting a multicultural agape loving America.

Despite 10,000 Palestinian and Israeli children dead,

The teevee set sez we have nothing to dread.

The commercial tells the people why.

Why they are alive.

Is to buy.

Buy and die.

Buy and try

To make your religion

Give you a reason why.

From the pulpits universal

The message is the same.

The reason remains plain

Don't explain.

JUST BUY!

Buy Medicare Advantage ad nauseum.

Get lousy coverage and smile

With Broadway Joe or JFK or any of the hundred hucksters.

Who cares??

At least you bought it all.

Thousands of pitches every year pounding our brains, our souls through our hungry ears.

Commercials are killing us !!

Then the TV news.

A platform to justify

That horrid greed.

The racket never ends,

Cacophony dissonance

Our macabre dance.

Buy. Buy. Buy some more.

Get enough money to buy.

The painted whore.

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Thank you, everyone, for the comments and love!

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