by Diane Elayne Dees
Our country, on the other hand,
is a big slice of heaven, where
a bag with different things in it
costs so much, we can’t afford
to buy clothes and medicine.
But things are bound to get better
because hundreds of penguins
have been hit with tariffs.
It will take time for us to see
the benefit of this, so our children
must have two dolls instead of
thirty dolls, but no worries—
they won’t have to get
vaccinated against anything,
and anyway, we’re all going to die.
Our children won’t be autistic
because their mothers, burning
with fever, won’t take Tylenol.
And—since they absorb everyting—
our children will rule the world
once they are all saturated
a bag with different things in it
costs so much, we can’t afford
to buy clothes and medicine.
But things are bound to get better
because hundreds of penguins
have been hit with tariffs.
It will take time for us to see
the benefit of this, so our children
must have two dolls instead of
thirty dolls, but no worries—
they won’t have to get
vaccinated against anything,
and anyway, we’re all going to die.
Our children won’t be autistic
because their mothers, burning
with fever, won’t take Tylenol.
And—since they absorb everyting—
our children will rule the world
once they are all saturated
in steak sauce. Having been spared
the evil of windmills, they’ll be smart
enough to bring down the plot to make
them all transgender. The bad news
is that there's no controlling
the rampant spread of transgender mice
because the immigrants ate all the cats.
them all transgender. The bad news
is that there's no controlling
the rampant spread of transgender mice
because the immigrants ate all the cats.
Diane Elayne Dees is the author of the chapbooks, Coronary Truth (Kelsay Books), The Last Time I Saw You (Finishing Line Press), The Wild Parrots of Marigny (Querencia Press), and I Can't Recall Exactly When I Died (Kelsay Books). Diane, who lives in Covington, Louisiana, also publishes Women Who Serve, a blog that delivers news and commentary on women’s professional tennis throughout the world. Her author blog is Diane Elayne Dees: Poet and Writer-at-Large.
