How much would you pay?

Is there a one size fits all
Factory stamped
Foil embossed
Kmart blue light special
Cure?

For the human condition?

The rock n' roll fever?
The boogie woogie
Men are from mars
Women from Venus
Flu?
Can I take a running leap
Across the hop scotch field
To salving peaceful balm?

12 skipping steps?

A thousand?

One?

Did the Dalai Lama die for my sins?

Are Jesus, Mohamed and
Barney the purple dinosaur
Playing cards with fat stogies clamped in their teeth
Waiting for me to join the game?

Am I a unity of the many

Or a cookie cutter man
Screaming out,
Belting out,
Whispering out
"I gotta be me!"
in an endless chorus line?

So what's it all mean anyway?

Can you give me the pill?

Do you have the magic touch?

Healing hands?

Do you have the word?

To make it all better …
To take the pain away …
To reintroduce the bliss
Of ignorance?

But wait, that's not all!

It offers salvation,
It assures peace,
It slices, it dices,
And it's dishwasher safe.

How much would you pay?

Nine ninety five?

WAIT don't answer yet!

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Responsibility got you down?
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© Jason Nunes 2001

 

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