Best Packaged Poems

Like Ramen noodles,
packaged, dried worms are instant.
Just add hot water, stir, and eat....

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Tell me
I'm not a man.

Up against this 
charred forest,
compelled along
its path.

Handed these levers,
these weights, these
high-stakes appraisals.

Delivered this beaten,
broken mired work,
these floundering hopes.

Living with my chiseled
consequences
and
fast turn-around
confrontations.

Captured in someone's climate
of conquest.

Clad in this breathless
armor of control,
a frenzy of packaged
   identity
like someone's remedies
for whom I...

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