SYNESTHESIA
coffee is no longer where it comes from, but how
when the ends are increasingly assumed
ethics you can taste, politics on the tip of your tongue
the roof of the mouth is still a roof like ketchup was a vegetable
food and shelter -- the irreducible minimum – and from this seed
a stadium, the welfare state, with its own lip services paid for
by Postwar Economic Growth, the team that keeps on winning
the United States the Globetrotters, the Generals Everyone Else
not a cosmos but a line ascending, the straighter the better
like those Apollo rockets and their ferocious lift-offs
not The Economy we were watching but a rehearsal
of that which has become a tendency to associate rockets
with economies, not the opposite of bombs dropped
concurrently on Hanoi, Nam Dinh and Viet Tri
but the appearance of an opposite
because what was sent to the moon
and what fell on North Vietnam
was the coffee mom bought at the supermarket
the loss-leader bananas that lured her there
coffee still comes from the same places
but it is the treatment of its pickers
that gives it its taste
Monday, April 2, 2012
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Jeff Derksen parody?
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