TO EAT AND BE EATEN by Wagenblatz

Parallel Universe . 4

Sat on my deck
Overlooking the misty Pacific
Picking my scalp Ruminating
Scabs, sores, dandruff
Scaly patches my conditioner
Would not eliminate Found
Tiny patch of flaky scalp
Hardly significant enough
To be called a scab
Picked it, examined it,
Threw it on the floor of the deck

Small Mother ant came running
From a crack intent on this semi-scab
Seized it, carried it away reeling
Drunkenly toward another crack
In the floorboards Disappearing
with my semi-scab Suddenly
Become so precious

Fantasized Mother and and Ten
Baby Ants gorging themselves
on my useless semi scab

Thought about the ants American Ants
Scrabbling to make themselves Precious
So Precious they must be elected to office

Pizza Ant who hits on blond women
Pretends it never happened

Homeschooled Lady Ant
Calls everyone Socialist if they fall
Outside her Evangelical purview

Boring Dad Ant son of another Dad Ant
Boring as hell Trying desperately
To distinguish himself from other
Dad Ants None so desperately boring
As He He
Is the frontrunner by default

Much disrespected Gay-Hating Ant
Pennsylvania Family Values Ant
Whose name cannot be Googled
Without revulsion Refers to all
Sex outside of Hetero as Man-on-Dog

Texas Ant who has never been defeated
Cannot imagine being defeated
Craggy in his weathered handsomeness
Stupid
In his ability to whore himself out
for anything

The Right of Center Ant Brigade
Eating us Trying to devour us
Elevate their minuscule Antness
Above ours

Slowly
Another of these predatory Ant Monsters
Seizes another piece of my scalp
Rushes to his hole in the floor
To emerge
Triumphantly sometime before next summer
As the new Front Runner

Some of destined to eat and be eaten
Some of us destined to simply eat
And get fat and become
The next Republican candidate for President