Tonight's Poet Corner: Paranoia

Paranoia
by Belinda Roddie

if the
probability of

eating
contaminated
beef soylent
green is made of

people people
gives you early
onset
everything

heartburn
hemorrhage
memory loss
stomach pains
death
death
death

on a bed of cotton
muffling your crying

is
one

in several zeros,
does that mean that

the little
boy eating
hot dogs

or
the
little girl
with depression

is
more likely to
become
president of the
United Nations of
pepper sprayed
despair?