11-08-2022, 11:09 PM
The most maddening of household appliances
without any doubt is the toaster
it refuses to form any useful alliances
with morning or evening or even the taster.
Its buttons and dials lead only to defeat
it always burns the bread beyond recognition
produces only smoke and carbonized wheat.
Karl Marx didn’t live to make a deposition
that its only purpose is to be the workers’ cyanide:
to drop it into one’s bath
transcend the means of production by suicide
a sizzling last laugh.
without any doubt is the toaster
it refuses to form any useful alliances
with morning or evening or even the taster.
Its buttons and dials lead only to defeat
it always burns the bread beyond recognition
produces only smoke and carbonized wheat.
Karl Marx didn’t live to make a deposition
that its only purpose is to be the workers’ cyanide:
to drop it into one’s bath
transcend the means of production by suicide
a sizzling last laugh.