middle class america

middle class america is
asleep
in her bed tonight
snuggled
uptight
in sheets that
never wrinkle
theme park dreams
of cotton
candy lips licked
clean of
substance a
clown keeps all
his balls
in the air
so long
that we forgot all
about them—a
hawker beckons one
and all
to a tent
attraction
something we just
shouldn’t see
middle class america
asleep in
her bed

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