Firestarters

I watched the hair model burn.

Her face lifted ashen into her hair.

The clean shaven guy

in the cut black jacket said his last

"Can you hear me now?"

I said, Can YOU hear me now?

I tossed the Costco ads

in the Walmart ads

and watched those new TVs burn,

their price tags curling up

into the screens like a cocoon

in reverse. Spandex

and jeans and denim,

new and used Honda Civics,

watches, shampoos, guitars,

the get-rich-quick schemes,

the new pharmaceuticals 

and the ads for lawyers 

to sue the old pharmaceuticals,

the dentists and cheeky fake suited philanthropists,

feed my fire, 

at least keep me warm tonight.