Ode To The Cereal Bowl: After Bukowski's 'As The Poems Go' Poem by Frank Avon

As the poems go
so goes the notion

- and overhead
in vivid color

and constant motion
the living ad:

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cornflakes
raisin bran

wheat chex
cheerios,

the poems displayed
in black and white below:

be a better breakfast eater,
the ads seem to say,

to sing
to shout aloud,

'Read me, read me, '
the poems plead.

In this day
- sad to say -

cornflakes
have more clout,

cheerios
win out,

and the poems go
in slo-mo.