Over the drone of the television
The spikes of their constant bickering
Punctuate everything in obnoxious trailer-people language
interstate trucker-dad is home
complaining vacantly about everything
too fat and stupid to act, it takes on a performative characteristic
the depend-a-potamous, her long, trashy, acrylic nails
drawing even more attention to how obese she is
Making me wonder how she got all those Johns these past weeks
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone with teeth so gnarly;
There in the unlicensed, unregistered, uninsured car
to the unlicensed, unregistered, unvaccinated dog
Some yarn about, ...some bullshit
carnie trying to drum up sympathy after the circus
To the disinterested regulars looking elsewhere
And the child; so well-adjusted
Respite to the derogatory reality, in such a way as to parallel
This city’s bass culture; tentpole-ing its value amid garbage
But the glimmer of the future is not the reality at hand—
Where missed opportunity dematerializes into nothingness
As a cast shadow is not the reality of man
How then, this interpretation has unraveled
the scream of machines, the burning of tires
As a rain that never lasts, the meaning evaporates
As if ignorance is a weather pattern
Disrespect is a kind of tide, in a perpetual culture
Where the juice simply ain't worth the squeeze.
