Consumer Vigilance

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“This product contains less than 1% juice”

Watching slow the happy screen
All those flashing clauses

“Side effects may include nausea, vomiting, dizziness,
And in some cases, death…
Please consult your physician before taking…”

Billboards portraying beauty brands
At cost of a nameless girl’s ego
And her subsequent falter of thought
Driving its nail through life’s coffin
As kindred products coerce the innocent
Stripping them of all self-worth

“Easy, breezy, beautiful…”

Shameless

Topicals have skinned our perceptions
Drying out existential wounds
Bleeding commercial afterimages
Satiating the gullet of society
Grown odiously fat off eye-candy
Improving bodies at hearts’ expense
Decaying youth into shells
As nativity is betrayed
And Eve devours