#77: Americanski Corporat Inc
—for megan, who sputters into a cell phone, “why do they hate us?”
sassy sissy richard sneasel
spit shine shoed financial weasel
in his dim bulb power tie
a squealing wide eyed frizzle fry
treading on their treadmills
suckered by ambition
automatons everyday
jockey for position
stultified suffocated
thanks to bonehead boss who stinks
getting pink slips for no reason
average workers on the brinks
jerking with unstoppable force
global warming at its source
generating nasty stink
americanski corporat inc
bulbous blithering sycophants
freshly ironed khaki pants
driving fast track ladder climbing fink
on his suicidal course
americanski corporat inc
sissy cel phone holding skank
cousin to the mountebank
manipulator social climber
blithering booblike nickel-and-dimer
honest people sucked into
the system cheating anyhow
honesty is not the point
to anybody now
polo shirts passels of them
jerks without attention spans
scarfing down turbercular
ptomaine poisoned food & drink
polar ices busting up
animals theyre all extinct
precious few insightful souls
hard to find someone who thinks
to stem the tide of toxifried
americanski corporat inc
In Joan Miro-like fashion, K.C. Wilder taps the collective unconscious and sculpts a stylized pop vernacular. The end result is painterly, layering pop with a brightly colored, surreal casing. This distinctive style Wilder calls “fauxbrow.” Wilder has taught writing at the State University of New York. He’s toured the U.S. and performed his poetry and music in over 30 cities nationwide, accompanied by his own guitar. www.kcwilder.com
Copyright © 2012 by K.C. Wilder
Cover Photo by Heather Parker