Mark Ewert – Food and Drug


Mark Ewert

Food and Drug

(‘overheard’ birthday poem for Dodie)

Take this moment

lightly sweetened—
secure, convenient and free.

Find out about

Total Portions—
soup, crackers, chowder
gluten, egg

chocolate fudge

pregnant
or breastfeeding.

Find out about:

this moment, for example

made exclusively for humans—
Wednesday night at 6 pm.

There’s no calm like the sigh
of making your voice heard

sending it out

Perishable

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