Activity Magazine

I'm acting with the help of
an activity magazine
it helps me with activities
with a brain the size of an almond
or a fig-tipped pen getting mushy
the best poets of the american east
hammer on the plastic and get wicked
with memory when memory goes
to work they act like children with
real ideas about daycare and sleepy
they always sleepy and teenage acting
so you should shove them
tell them to settle the fuck down
with bread or sugar fruits
make them cookie this
or sweet fudge that
zip them into peppermint lacquer
until they act better
with glamorous machines
and hypoglycemic raw honey candies
dialed into beets in lime juice
until sleep until sweet sacred
illusive sleep.