Three Snarky Poems

 

People have become corporations.
We must have a brand, a clever name, a logo
a mug, a pen, a polo.  
I made a sign for earth day.
All the words were crooked.
“People have become corporations,” it read
But no one understood it.

The Last Frontier
A pretty actress must play the ugly role,
Some baggy clothes and glasses and, naturally, she’s droll.
It’s quite okay for ugly girls to get harassed by men.
Everyone is so impressed when they deign to flirt with them.
Later in the movie the ugly girl will win.
And we all learn that beauty only goes as deep as skin.
But, brace yourself for the surprise, it turns out all along,
All she needed was some contacts, a smile and a thong.

Too Many Signs
The radical environmentalists talked reciprocity
Post positive they were
On contemplative ecology.
Meanwhile, out on the sidewalk, the temperature is jumping
All is fried with pesticide and the oil wells keep pumping,
Bill Nye still wears his bow tie and he tells us what’s in store
We shake our heads this way or that, then go off to do our chores.
They’re building a new gas station down the street, I saw.
They’ll have to move the lot two feet, to comply with the wetland law.
It’s mid-June, the flowers bloom, but nothing much stops by, 
The Mosquito Squad is cited, for putting up too many signs.