Cheerios

You are what you eat & I

I am a sexmad wheatgerm

floating in holes of cheerios

stamped out of Kansas farmland

where in late August

the All-American sun

drives ripe farmgirls into barns

and shadows as pitchforks

are abandoned like Neptune's

trident while he rolled in the springs

with Ceres seeds exploding

everywhere pinecones and

pomegranates ears of corn

popeyed with heat

bunches of grapes swollen

in the wagon while we

danced & sang & drank

& ate and the god laughed

& chanted crying

Gobble it all in excess of

the minimum daily adult requirements:

screw hunger

look longer

live younger