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like a breath of fresh air

like a breath of fresh air... and all things considered, broadcast on national public radio Frequency: 90.9WHYY-FM, I (a liberal democrat) counted myself as an avid fan particularly listening to the prairie home companion during half life of mine arbitrarily referenced yardstick of one measly mortal male Matthew Scott Harris, whose chronological years athwart planet earth elapsed within figurative or literal eye blink, one humble human among rank and file cosmic flotsam and jetsam, a veritable fluke of the universe even in the third eye blind of supposed benevolent creator hashtagged us as "Rink-a-dink." To denote time frame of average human existence such as mine from conception to demise the former quietly fêted as first time young parents clink their wine glasses together before person manning masculine role quaffs a longer draught when seminal occasion (attested and indicated by presence of pregnancy hormone hCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) in the body expectant mother/fatherhood when extrapolated, jump/kick started, and genealogy relegated *****sapiens over populated the Earth Until an unspecified time in the future when aforementioned genus and species will mete just desserts and become extinct. Thus far I completed about two thirds of totally tubular orbitz around mister sun before grim reaper slated to arrive meanwhile, I muscled and elbowed, albeit passive aggressive hustle and bustle feigning a(n) self important existence and will confidently risk a wager (betting free drinks on the house) attesting each of ourselves analogously take center stage as the most vital earthling while maintaining precarious balance, whereby propensity to proliferate progeny past the tipping point whereby carrying capacity of billions of people an inconvenient truth will accelerate total mortal kombat global internecine warfare, the twenty first civilization now teetering on the brink spelling the absolute zero chance for a comeback, when rabid mobs of madding crowds overtake societal mandates for law and order which arbitrated, executed, and inculcated storied establishmentarian parameters heavily policed to legislate against violent crime nevertheless despite enforcement of legal unanimous precepts particularly against non-citizens of United States, where capital punishment doth trumpet depredations and especially deportations where undocumented immigrants considered more serious transgressions versus machinations against thou shalt not kill, no matter stoop labor within agribusinesses and slaughterhouses where nasty, shortish and brutal livelihoods decimate husbands, wives, and underage stoop workers essentially child labor. The veritable pith and marrow of back breaking and dangerous industries girded courtesy that class of immigrants relegated as outsiders forever and anon with unswerving sacrifice pitch their welfare (and tacitly accept risk to life and limb) while buzzfeeding the manufacturing industrial complex no doubt enriching the coffers of aristocrats living social among the jet setting pack. Born and bred in the buckeye state of sin (since a natty nattering nabob of negativism) within the outer limits of the twilight zone, where dark shadows bathed the edge of night into surreal scenes of macabre skull and crossbones signalled inauspicious dangerfields, there I felt hashtagged, ostracized and shunned courtesy nursing an inferiority complex, wherein father and mother of mine both wary stars (videlicet lapsed government issued Jedi Jews) added insult to injury by baptizing yours truly and two twisted sisters of mine linkedin to Unitarian Universalist dogma (a worse fate versus being held captive and ogled after surviving kamikaze landing as a crash test dummy courtesy Extravehicular Mobility Unit and subsequently unfairly showcased me as an extraterrestrial from an alien nation), nevertheless experiencing ideally matched upbringing better suited to characters in "The Outcasts of Poker Flat," hence no surprise I flagged down hovering Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and eager trod upon the Scottish welcome mat unfurled for me to be taken away while Portsmouth Sinfonia played Hallelujah in the background synchronized as groovy saucer shaped spaceship flashed lights displayed an explicit message heavily expletive punctuated, but of course outsize kaleidoscope only whet an appetite where motley crew clamored to bully their way and unfortunately getting tasered as talking heads experienced futility could barely restrain the madding crowd.

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