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Format:Chapbook
Size: 5 ½ x 8 ½
Pages: 28
Prodigal Cocktail Umbrella
by Jon Riccio
Jon Riccio received his PhD from the University of Southern Mississippi's Center for Writers. A classically trained violist, he concertized throughout New Zealand, Australia, and the United States. He serves as a contributing interviewer for the University of Arizona Poetry Center's 1508 blog.
Fisher-Price: My First Cult Deprogrammer
Doomsday pays my allowance.
The millennium, a guru reneged.
I do unscrambling on indecisives.
Extirpation, all in a belief’s work.
Gurus reneged on the millennium—
discipleship never goes as planned.
All this work, extirpating a belief. I
play with Hello Kitty, followers’ heads.
Religion never goes as planned,
the wayward covered in magazines.
With head followers, the hell-kit.
Combustion leads to messiahs,
magazines covering the wayward.
I unscramble indecisives, those afraid
messiahs combust as leads. Reti-
cence, the doom allowed per day.