Green Peas at Stake

Selling Knives (Dew drop 13)

Selling Knives

                   to whom it may concern

I don't mean to change the subject
from your fun activities like hunting deer or
candidates or Italian villa rentals to
dramatic dismay, and I know it hurts too much
to talk about the war, homelessness,
dead children, where we are headed,
bloodletting, and suffering.
Instead, I pick on the knife industry
that advertises its wares with words like,
"Lifetime supply of incredibly sharp edges."
I pick on the phrase lifetime supply,
I pick on the sharpness virus,
the cutting, the preemptive anything,
the rubble we lost ourselves in,
while not letting seeds regenerate under
the ground to feed the entire planet.
I pick on this one ad, because trifles
veil reality; trifles console me.