Cinnamon Battery Soap

 

Our journaling group leader passes around cinnamon in a shaker (commercial variety), a battery (C size) and an average commercial bar of rancid pig fat, chemically scented (to hide the rancidity) soap and says: “write about what these remind you of”, thus we have…

 

 

Cinnamon Battery Soap

By Teak Kilmer

 

From “Products That Gamble, the take a risk and

Try our stuff company. This - our newest sensation:

Cinnamon Battery Soap. 

 

“Recharge” your bath and your cup of coffee

with our newest cake of toxically perfumed,

buzzed-up, rancid lard fat soap, but wait; there’s more:

It’s laced with real fake cinnamon, that’s if it were really

real t’would heal your inflammation, kill your gut

Infections and balance your tilted blood sugar,

but it’s not and it won’t.

 

But what do you care? Everybody’s doing it,

so charge up your soak and your java juice.

This stuff will electrify even your dull

personality and those of your even duller family.

We corporations have poisoned your health and

stolen your real energy, so God knows

you have to do something.

 

Yes, sir, battery-charged almost-cinnamon flavored soap will

Instantly clean up you and yours and excite your comatose

Limbic system, for some happy hormones to come and

Sit a spell, so get buzzed while you sit or soak or

Just have a need to charge something. Take a chance with

America’s most dangerous but adventuresome products.

Live it up; you’re going to die anyway. Buy Products That

Gamble – with your life. Hey, it’s the American way.

 

This ad is approved by George W. Bush and by all those

who have bought-out our once beloved U.S. government,

all its departments and tributaries, justice, right to trial,

freedom from torture, right to privacy, democracy, truth,

fiscal responsibility, care for the environment and wildlife,

love for our enemies…and turning:

the other cheek and those swords into plowshares.

 

This is Teak Kilmer MN signing off and

To the Earth and our children I quote the apt phrase:

 

“GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK”…

Because we and your keepers, your parents…

Have become the enemy that we seek: just a tubful of mindless

Cinnamon Battery Soap.

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