Yet
Another
Immense bowl poured,
Deliriously! Cheerful! Cereal!
Rains
       like
           *****,
Eyes wide,
(The bleach white of critter-milk
Startled me sometimes.)
Gut protested,
child-brain gone static
With tv soup, frantic like my
Churning      stomach

Yet
another
Guilty passage to my mouth,
Quick avoiding eyes
Of stranger aunt
And stranger uncle,
Passing on faded vinyl tiles.

Retreat! Repeat.

Stagnant        prepubescent  
  Curled          embraci­ng  
An anciently abrasive couch

One zombie hour in
TV Wonderland!
For each 100...miles...from home:
  
This is not a vacation.

Not merely a visit, mama, though you
Assured. Me.

This is not a vacation but the
product
Of a failed! Marriage!
A case in court, the big THEY.

Deposit me here,
While...I...ferment:
An investment:
Television stares
And a belly full of
Cheap
Cereal.