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MASSIVE EGG RECALL

good evening—breaking news:  
                 the fda has issued  
         a nationwide egg recall  
reason: some cartons  
          were fertilized  
yes, you heard correctly  
        your breakfast may  
                     now produce a baby  

millions of americans  
          sit frozen at kitchen tables  
staring at half-eaten omelets  
         wondering if they need  
                          a lawyer  
or a pediatrician  

one viewer from ohio writes:  
   “i was scrambling eggs  
              when they started crying  
do i call child protective services  
                 or just add salt?”  

big egg industries sources claim  
        bribed lobbyists  
suppressed fertility warnings  
       just in time  
             for breakfast futures trading  

cable sponsors—  
         who also sell omelet insurance  
covering spontaneous embryo custody  
                  assure us this is  
one hundred percent verified breaking news  

side effects include:  
          morning sickness during zoom meetings  
crib assembly at chick-fil-a drive-thrus  
        the compulsion to name your benedict  
                              “skylar”  
existential dread when separating yolks from whites  
         pyramid-scheme enrollment via qr codes on the shell  
harvard scientists warn:  
two sunny-side-ups may yield  
                 nobel laureates  
spontaneous jazz hands  
        or minor levitation paired with  
                          knowledge of your neighbors’ wi-fi passwords  

naturally, the world beyond our borders  
           hasn’t remained unscrambled:  
france has placed croissants  
                under criminal investigation  
japan’s sushi chefs refuse tamago  
brazil gps tracks every shell  

meanwhile, the un convenes  
          an emergency brunch summit  
sponsored by the international egg corporation  
            where diplomats are quietly bribed  
                          with gold-plated omelet forks  

back on home soil, congress drafts  
       the emergency breakfast safety act:  
background checks for roosters  
three-day waiting periods for omelets  
       mandatory fertility counseling at waffle house  
federal subsidies for contraceptive mayonnaise dispensers  
             lobbyists call it  
common sense breakfast reform  

within hours, social media combusts  
          #omeletbabychallenge racks up  
six hundred million views  
tiktok tutorials teach parents to livestream  
                  their yolks’ first steps  
instagram moms post bump selfies  
        with sunny-side-ups on their heads  
reddit hosts black-market egg auctions  
      influencers promising your child  
                 will be a youtube sensation  

analysts predict chaos:  
daycare demand up 73 percent  
           high-chair shortages nationwide  
protests outside cracker barrel and ihop  
           by parents who never signed consent forms  
before french toast  

meanwhile, cable news airs live footage  
       of omelets filing restraining orders  
                       against children  

yet, when the yolk settles  
           the real crisis isn’t the eggs  
it’s us  

we’ve built a world  
         where breakfast requires liability waivers  
where nourishment demands legal counsel  
        where even hunger itself becomes content  
packaged, monetized,  
        and sold back to us  
                   by the very corporations  
                              who profit from our confusion  

so remember:  
if your refrigerator starts charging child support  
          if your omelet demands visitation rights  
if your eggs develop political opinions  
          and begin posting about their diet on instagram  
you are not hallucinating  

you are witnessing america 2025  
        where we’ve commodified creation itself  
turned sustenance into spectacle  
      and made even the yolk of life  
                     a corporate product  

this has been your breakfast  
            this has been your news  
this has been your life  
          sponsored by the very chaos it creates  

the broadcast fades out  
       chyron:  
massive egg recall  
         breakfast now under federal review  
paternity testing  
          and disclaimer:  
you may already be breakfast

Copyright © Daniel Henry Rodgers

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