So Beautiful

Right now you're doing the laundry
feeling your favorite cotton shirt
made in China Sri Lanka Honduras

you look out at the sky - blue perhaps
gray drizzle - downpour - no matter

this moment opens
the mind grinds
the heart blossoms

you breathe in the air
hot electric air
fresh outdoor clothesline air
where ever air

this perfect moment so beautiful
while over there the drought is on fire
and on the other side the river water
is waist high in the kitchen and
smelling of sewage

there's mercury in my pan fish
melamine in the dog food
bright lead paint in the baby's mouth
methamphetamines, mood-elevators,
growth hormones and erectile dysfunction
meds all pissed into the groundwater
and pumped back out fresh as mountain spring
in to a mountain of plastic bottles

filter filter filter filter filter filter filter
filter seven times seven times seven
marketing so biblical they are fully absolved

we are in no mood now to list the great wonders
of the free market economy, for
and here's the take-away line
if the free maket economy were policing itself
we would be seeing more CEO's on wanted posters

( i can see myself drawing moustache's and glasses
and inking a cigarette on their thin lips and blacking
out a tooth. )

wearing a perfect cotton shirt
under a perfect sky
It is a perfect moment
for weeping uncontrollably