Television Viewer
Adam Hodges

From the pictures of light,
I feel cathode rays
tube-fed into hardened arteries
bleeding with affluence.

Smoke screen in eyes,
surveys show Kosovo refugees
prefer Marlboros to Camels,
nearly two to one…voting age eighteen.

From the blind sounds,
the thickening beat of
a corporate politic on Viagra
occluded with Teletubbies.

God speaks through Wall Street
venture capitalist:  Buy Honduran
that the children may drink Pepsi
at Texaco’s across the Third World

From the Technicolor sky-cam,
tightening freeways clogged
with six billion procreating sheep
cloned and cholesterol laced.

El nino mudslides
wipe out Hollywood
homes, insurance
consortium sues God.

From the deaf visions,
I feel the thud of my wallet
in chest, empty and lifeless,
last drop spent on lipo-suction.

Survey sez,
Iraqi children prefer
medicine to bombs,
several million to five.