Meat Is Murder
On a random radio station,
driving through another state,
the talkshow host throws out
a spurious statistic,
citing the high percentage of “young people”
(she doesn’t give an age range)
who believe that bacon is a vegetable.
This may be a commentary
on the stupidity of “young people.”
(“They’re just so fuckin’ dumb!”)
Or it may be about disinformation,
the woeful state of education in America,
how anybody can say anything
and somebody will accept it as true.
But then the host waxed philosophical
about how all living things have to eat
other living things in order to survive.
I wasn’t sure where she was going with this.
What did it have to do with young people?
What did it have to do with pork?
But by then she’d moved on
to the state of some celebrities’ relationships.
Were they still together
or were the rumors about a breakup true?
Charles Rammelkamp is Prose Editor for BrickHouse Books in Baltimore. A collection of persona poems and dramatic monologues involving burlesque stars, The Trapeze of Your Flesh, was recently published by BlazeVOX Books. His collection, The Tao According to Calvin Coolidge, has just been published by Kelsay Books.
