The New Enzyme Detergent Demise Of Ali Macgraw

Mine was a Wednesday death

One afternoon

At approximately three-fifteen

I gave up and died

And nobody cried

Mine was a bloodless death

Not grim

Not gory

More like

Ali Macgraw's new enzyme

Detergent demise in "love story"

Neat and tidy

Unlike Christ's on Friday

Friends were fooled

By the fact

I still breathed

And I spoke

And I smiled

And I lied

In my handy dandy

Imitation life disguise kit

I sent away for it

The styrofoam face

Fits so neatly in place

With the pre-recorded voice

Of your choice

And it almost sounds read

It's a guaranteed deal

And you don't feel a thing

And you can teach it to sing

And all your friends

Are deceived

And nobody grieves

Mine was a Wednesday death

One afternoon

At approximately three-fifteen

I was quietly

Laid to rest

And nobody guessed

A handy disposable heart

Marks time in a plastic breast

And so it goes

And nobody knows

I am

Non

Bio-degradable