Popped

 
skipping thru

bubble gum culture in a fog

ponging and bonging ears

–hair drugged up on Peroxide

an’ so high

it buzzed bee-hive high

her cover—jealous, so she

gave her face its fix, too

tying off flab by the dime roll

spank you very much

because soda pop bones

break with the smallest provocation

©Karen Robiscoe