Infobank

By Xavier Vagus

He was a Barack Obama democrat
a Teddy Roosevelt republican
drinking gas station coffee
in a paisley purple cardigan

he ripped open a roll of Wonka spree
when the cop came in the corner grocery
like blueberry cake
in a swarm of bumble bees

hummingbird eyeballs zipped and melted
a cryptic plastic beetle popped rainbow mesh
the employee bathroom was a maze of nets
and rippled like exhausted bronco flesh

the can bounced off the tile
like the tin beat in a juice song
the digitized laser executed the perpetrator
like a stick figure morphed into a palm frond

his badge ate at the light with golden teeth
as he edged towards the frantic electric soup
it cut through a wall of chocolate
and left a rumpled navy pile of burning goop

the rain of sparkle drops lasted for a minute
as she stepped through the plasma
in sunglasses and exo mirrored leather
straight as the night into the miasma

the plastic purple beetle scuttled to the infocommunicator
among the scattered spree
phosphorous lipstick in a kiss released the switch
and the locks on the vault in the bank were free

Infobank original appeared in The Cat and the Oriole