causalties of war in poetry

we managed to make the release
of a new Star Wars movie into a
collective cultural colonoscopy
an uncomfortable begrudging obligation
something nobody wants to actually do but
you’re afraid you’ll miss something important
if you don’t go in for the inspection anyway
such is this nostalgia-industrial complex
the doctor comes into the room proclaiming

TIME TO BEND OVER, BABY-DOLL
WE’VE GOT MORE STAR WARS FOR YOU

and you just want it to go fast
and you just want them to be gentle
and you just want to get enough drugs
where you might remember it fondly or
even better not remember it at all

we refused to let go of our childhoods
so the corporations came along and made
our fond memories a multinational commodity
and just like a deep colonic review
we go up our own asses looking for something
something rare and lost and missing
if we find it, we are horrified
if we don’t, we know it will come the next time

what we mistook to be
our cherished childhood memories
instead turned out to be
some stockholder’s intellectual property
bend over again or let go
bend over again or let go
keep your past to you but
also let the children
have their own future too
it’s that or
bend over again