Oprah's World

Oprah’s World


I have no voice but my own

No marching to the beat of a different drummer

just the slow suffocation

of my mind by the wet blanket

of flat-minded people in this round world of ours

[This ball of gas].



People lack the vision of harmony

—people with Fallwell’s smirking arrogance

and Chevy Cavaliers with dove gray interiors

because this is their idea of peace

[the commercial said so].





I have no voice but my own, yet it cannot resonate-

[-Smog alerts and global warming-].

My thoughts escape through holes in the ozone layer

pushed up by people bitching

because Clinton got a blowjob

and didn’t announce it on national TV—

[hot air-hot air].



These people have Jerry Springer lives

and I live in an Oprah world

[-of oneness, harmony, spirituality]

but her ratings go down and I lose my voice...



11:14 pm 7-6-99