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a camera zooms into the atmosphere
and all that's left to see here
is piles and piles and
miles and miles of
trash

decades of yesterday's treasures
the must-have crazes of every generation
each fly-by-night design trend
mass-produced and reduced
to stacks on top of stacks
decaying but
alarmingly slowly

a curious octopus investigates my old toothbrush
he shakes his bulbous head and
mutters something about incompetence
as a delivery truck rumbles down my block
forgotten but not gone
so much stuff

like my wedding dress
one thousand three hundred dollars
better spent on rent
or a trip to Vegas
where the odds aren't so against us

but dopamine is cheap
coffee, candy, whiskey
I could buy my dreams
if I could afford them (which I can't):
Margaritaville's a happy plastic island
Disney World is perfect plastic magic
and I'm sold
I want to go there

meanwhile old trucks rust in junkyards
satellites collide like race cars
and my windshield has a crack so large
I can hardly see where I'm going

consumerism is our national religion
and I try but I can't escape it
I love it as much as I hate it
the rise and fall of American kitsch
looked better on Elvis
now we're accelerating toward some
ominous high-tech destination
with Botox-stuck smiles on our faces but
no matter how many products I purchase
my vanity project is failing
I am aging
my hair is greying

I sat at my kitchen table
pen scratching on printer paper
I wrote
“life is a process,
art is truth
joy is real
humanity is kind
and there is nothing left to buy”

then I set it on fire
particulates clogging the night sky
I scoop my packages off the porch and
look up with tired eyes
start my car's ailing engine
peer through my broken windshield
and drive

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