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I’m buying it

and getting sick over it

the slick commercials

pull my heart strings

and yank my chain

and I occasionally

fall for it

the subtlety is,

at times,

quite hard to resist

I succumb

to the hype

then I feel sick

to my stomach

that I’m so gullible

I should be

above this sort

of manipulation

but I’m drinking a Pepsi

and eating Taco Bell

It’s almost a cry

from the bowels of the Earth

but even that,

I imagine,

would be more dignified

than what I’m doing now

and I really should know better

6-13-99