night of the living dead consumers

[mnaz]

from tract houses in the devil's driveway
they came, through a smog of uniformity
circuit chip on every table, SUV in every pot
across the grim fresh asphalt underworld
wallets a-wheeze with plastic prosperity
past tubs of mayo and mono-culture
crusades exploding on video screens
steely eyed joes in vast column matrices
with malice of a million beer commercials
inexorably toward aisle thirty-seven
fists full of bleeding red bar codes
left foot lurch, right foot drag
lurch and drag
lurch and drag

[dadio]

captured well & delivered spot on.

[mnaz]

thanks terry.

"steely eyed joes". heh...

inspired by the eternal smog of sprawl...

[saw]

it's a huge country, and we sprawled with the best of them....in my mind we destroyed the power and beauty of community.........

[hester_prynne]

"lurch and drag"....
You nailed it! I love it.
H

[mnaz]

steve, when we started worshiping the corporate god, the big box temples, the wal-mart-ification of society, we messed with the character of our communities no doubt. i called it "entropy" in my book-- "the universe tending toward a state of homogeneity..."

hest... good to see you back. thanks. i actually wrote this one about 5 year ago, at the height of our overheated, over-inflated plastic, binge economy . . . the zombies have had to cut back some since then . . .