October 12

America

Inspired by Allen Ginsburg’s America 

 

America! I am hungry

Hungry for the gasoline that drips from your gun

$36.27 and my tank is full

America! I am hungry

For 167 million Youtube views

America! I am hungry

For 14 bags, plastic ones for the cat to try and eat

Throw up everywhere, damnit

America! I am hungry

$4.05 of big mac

Stereotypical…

America! I am hungry

For 6 more beers

And I’ll forget this shit

America! I am hungry

For $500 Botox

And my lips are so tight I can’t smile

America! I am hungry

For my $75 cable bill

So I can be mindlessly manipulated by you

America! I am hungry

For some $3 million

Football commercials

America! I am hungry!

For 26 likes on Facebook

America! I am hungry

For 6 abdominals

This Bowflex isn’t cutting it

America! I am still Hungry!

For 25 cigarettes

Lung cancer doesn’t happen to everyone.

America! I am hungry!

For $50,000 fireworks. It’s the 4th.

God bless America!

America! I am hungry!

For $4.99 Cosmo

I will learn to be attractive

America! I am hungry!

For 15 less pounds

Grapefruit and only grapefruit tastes good right?

America! I am hungry!

For 7 bananas in my grocery cart

Get ’em before they go extinct.

America! I am hungry!

For 18,000 kilowatts of energy

I like the lights on when I watch TV

America! I am Hungry!

For Internet on my ipod, my phone, my TV, my wii, my computer, my kindle

Is 6 devices really too much to ask?

America! I am hungry!

America! I’m not full!

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