{"id":21547,"date":"2016-08-13T15:08:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T19:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=21547"},"modified":"2016-08-13T17:55:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:55:37","slug":"genie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/genie\/","title":{"rendered":"Genie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Genie<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It\u2019s the genie in the bottle<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t ask for.<\/p>\n

If I want her<\/p>\n

hips<\/p>\n

lips<\/p>\n

and tits<\/p>\n

I have to work more.<\/p>\n

To reach that far<\/p>\n

and be<\/p>\n

that porn star.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Eyes and ears everywhere,<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t escape you.<\/p>\n

Watching street corners,<\/p>\n

doors,<\/p>\n

and more \u2013<\/p>\n

you see through my xbox, too.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Ok, Genie,<\/p>\n

here\u2019s the rub,<\/p>\n

you can bring together<\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

rend asunder<\/p>\n

and the chip in my Spark<\/p>\n

could fire a heart.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It keeps some alive<\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

slowly kills others \u2013<\/p>\n

lithium leeching<\/p>\n

in water<\/p>\n

near Bombay<\/p>\n

but here in the West<\/p>\n

everything\u2019s ok<\/p>\n

because<\/p>\n

we\u2019ve got the cash<\/p>\n

and the political will<\/p>\n

to<\/p>\n

put chips in drones,<\/p>\n

which<\/p>\n

helps stock to sell<\/p>\n

for those<\/p>\n

who never see<\/p>\n

the shadow<\/p>\n

of the Genie full grown.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know who did it,<\/p>\n

but I\u2019d like to fuck them up,<\/p>\n

for<\/p>\n

wishing for infinite wishes<\/p>\n

we can\u2019t bottle back up<\/p>\n

cuz<\/p>\n

while we have our fantasies<\/p>\n

in everyshape<\/p>\n

and size,<\/p>\n

someone\u2019s finger<\/p>\n

is<\/p>\n

poised on the trigger<\/p>\n

and we\u2019ll never see their eyes<\/p>\n

when they<\/p>\n

squeeze it.<\/p>\n

(c) R. L. Elke 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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