The Google Trends Poem

Rick Soisson
The bored insatiable beast

Munches lazily on the pointless parts,

So many appendices in one body...

Naked Erin Andrews, needing a blender

To be digestible,

The lifeless Taco Bell dog,

No longer annoying

After a few more clicks,

And Number One today...

Suspended cash for clunkers -

Not pointless, true,

Except that it's gone

For now.

So many Omar Bhattis, Eminems,

And Mariah Careys play, listedly,

With the amazing...fartlek!

(Emil Zatopek reaches from his grave,

And touches the toes

Of no runner he couldn't still whip,

Only Lauren Luke and Greg McMackin,

The housewives of Atlanta,

And a president downing a brew

With a cop and a portly scholar.)

The beast blinks once and yawns.

Published by Rick Soisson

Rick Soisson has taught writing, literature and public speaking at four very recognizable institutions of higher learning in the Philadelphia area. His essays, fiction and poetry have have been carried by m...  View profile

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