Televised Hucksterism

Poetry Is Harder to Write When You’re on Weed

I just watched an
advertisement where
a pretty girl (you know the kind
of pretty: pretty like I would like
to be)
Tell the whole country
how excited she was
about her new
SOCKS!

They were made with copper fibers embedded in them
copper because of its
(supposed)
healing properties
But
then…