Final sale, as it is, no returns, everything goes.

Flowers for the olfactory challenged, chefs for the palette-less,
capes for the powerless, mimes for the blind, maestri for the deaf,
love for the heartless, bullets for the poets.

Short-sighted seers, cynical romantics,
this week’s legend, vision-impaired leaders, heartless holy men,
bounded skies, fleeting eternities.

The now, the then, fad diets, the Zen-Dow-Tao,
bailouts, screw-ups, lock-downs, love-ins,
reality TV, social networks, anti-social behavior,
after-school-Saturday-night specials,

little blue pills, orange barrels, black beauties,
white lightning, boogie-night-red-yellow-terror,
cougars, panthers, housewives of any state, altered states, brotherhoods, sister states,

in-source, out-source, to the source, find the source, reveal your source, take off your mask,

the spring-summer-fall of despotic regimes,
the winters of our crusading discontent,
in the name of (fill in the unspeakable reference to your favorite god),

state-of-the-union-jack-off-color-remarks,
political correctness, gender buy ass,
diversity, exclusion, cancer, protrusions,
MOMA, DOMA, SOMA, coma, arrivederla Roma,

retakes, rejects, premature ejaculate, real estate speculate,
mortgage fraud, Sigmund Freud, sigmoidoscopy, hard copy, soft copy,
soft skills, skill sets, non-stick skillet, sodium, more sodium, most sodium,
nitrates, nitrites, bull fights, olestra, the last straw, the last waltz,
the final curtain, finals, ritalin, vitamin K,

date rape, court date,
meat grinder, quarter pounder, pound your meat,
a pound of flesh, salt lick, rock salt, pound rocks,

on the juice, on the take, on the lam, on the grift, graft,
knick-knack paddywack, paddy wagon, tails a’waggin’, asses dragging,

on the stand, on the skids, on the street, on the money, on the nose,
nose bleed, bleed out, down and out,

down low, low down, a new low, a new high, high and dry,
down and dirty, low riders, cut throats,
cut-rate, my cut, my take,
take me down, beam me up.

© Chicheme, 2013