Miami Shores inspired Poem

"American City"

American city, your roads make me gasp,

Hold my breath with cancerous anxiety.

Your sidewalks, 

Ancient ruins of time passed: A failed optimism for Utopian desire:

A house, a yard, a car for every person.

Now derelict, termite infested, but rented.

Chlorinated chemical water runs through rusted, moldy spickets to 

Rinse pesticide seasoned vegetables.

And yet they remain so tasteless.

But who  cares?

Suburban middle class zombies?

Created with media placed propaganda.

Born and inoculated with DisneypepsiMccocacola ideologies.

Oh Wal-Mart, 

how we love your homogenized Chinese products.

Oh America, 

how we love your multi-million dollar cathartic films,

They bring my mind to no place and inspire nothing.

Your theme park inspired retail caters to any identity I desire:

I am a professional, 

My wallet lined with the best credit cards, 

SUV, Hummer, Super boat, designer label, mall bought, 

bleached teeth smile, with slick greasy hair style.

I'm cool, I pay for the gas.

Beep your horn, and rev your engine.

We are at war with each other.

Everyone get out of my way: road rage lifestyle: compete or die.

Big screen television dream.

Bought it at Target.

Open my cupboard: Macaroni and Cheese, delicious.

Ambian, Prozac, antibiotic, Listerine.

Collagen bovine beauty:

Manicure, pedicure, dye and wax

Acrylic nails, hair extensions

And silicone sacs.

Oh, American city

How we want to steal your money and suck your blood.

Chop your trees and cement your grass.

American city you are dead.