Tonight's Poet Corner: Adjustment Catalog

Adjustment Catalog
by Belinda Roddie

In this spring season's
adjustment catalog:
flimsy
brochure [tiny
speck of print that removes
all decency], end quote:

a variety of specimen
to choose from.

Por exampli:
notice the
freckled, dimpled face.
now for 699.99 at your local surgery outlet - order now and receive a free injection of
THE UNREASONABLE HORRORS OF THE MACABRE WORLD
PUMPED RIGHT INTO YOUR FUCKING FLESH.

"Wouldn't it look lovely on
little Susie?"

(Susie says yes. She smiles. She walks to her mother and lifts the hem
of her teeny tiny skirt that rides up her teeny tiny ass)

SUSIE. Mother, you are so kind to offer such a
complete change of personality; a 180; a one-eighty?
one-eight·y / ˈwʌnˈeɪ ti / wuhn - ey -tee /

wuhn - ey - tee buy a 
new lip swelling? facelift? chinlift? forklift? earlift? lifelift?
plotline-suitable-for-The-Twilight-Zone-lift?
(non-conformist and seemingly plain-looking
average and completely head-over-heels 
passionate protagonist

hesitates.)

"If you don't want to be adjusted," says
the artificial egg-spawning mother
with a liposuction hole in her gut the size of a
black hole,

"you can throw the foolish little booklet
away."


IF YOU FUCKING DARE.