Surreal Poem by Robert Sheridan

Stacked on grocery shelves – kids view
Hallucinatory quality of a milk dream
Oddly shaped sizes floating in the bowl
Don’t want the breakfast of champions –
to dull; but rather, “Bring on the sugar! ”

Kellogg’s and others started a cultural
movement once upon a time, non-sequitur
Morning conversation, before mom and
dad make like Splits-Ville out the door
for them, it’s coffee and doughnuts – ole’.

Dad-aism and Mom-aism have long
become a cultural movement as-well
The passion has shifted to corporate
America, versus time with the kids
A destructive force – loss of the brain.

Each day has become ‘soap radio’
The human body is no longer connected
to the self; it’s now a participant in a
prank – anti-family, but not anti-dollar
The outcome – traditional values down the drain.

‘2008’