Striptease

Alexa

Tells the children
Slurping slushies
Squealing on the slide

Big Business and Real Estate
Fur Coats and Nuclear Bombs
Are more beautiful

Than the tree house
Papa built
To catch shooting stars.

The silent sage

Walks across the dried bed

Of the silent stream
That ran beside

His meditation grove

Behind him

Inside the Mega Mall

Surrounded by

Twenty five storied

Studio apartment skyscrapers

The loudspeaker blares
The happy hour announcement

Striptease in an hour.