Moving bookcases speaking for

                The tectonic plates

                Translations of world history

                Filtering through coin machines.

                Commodified Johnny sits eating

                A seedless apple

                Rivers sifted for gold

                Captured, bottled, and sent up stream.

                The low self esteem engine

                Derails off a penny

                Just below the poverty line.

                Johnny, hand in the air,

                Commodifies his question,

                “Where has all the water gone?”

                As lightning strikes

                The lightning rod, outside

                In a different world.