faster food

she pops
popcorn chicken
oblivious to the plop
flopping over
her belt.
he molests chicken
fingers with no regard
to his
love
handles.
who cares, anyway?
they might wonder, though
they don’t, because nine
of 11 of their fellow
Americans,
at
the
very least, are
similarly slovenly
and
ok, portly, to put it
thinly.
fat, fatter,
fattest.
But careful, always, to wash
it
down with
Diet
Coke.