Second Rate

Spores and balloons float

Beneath, above and around

The copter blades.

New pachyderm wobbles,

Ascends

Coalescing in the parking lot

10,000 maniacs

belching mono

from tailpipes

fixing makeup

face bumper reflected

a bumper crop

of autos

making a river, making a stream

all a part

of the American Dream.

That is a second rate reality.

Leaving paraders head home

TV Dinners for the stomach

TV Drivel for the mind.