all the stuff you find in a jar of peanut butter

all the stuff
you find in a jar of peanut butter
in tap water
in McDonald's pink goo
rat hairs and worms
fluoride and germs
and chemicals to kill germs
and cyanide and sperm

all of that alien substance
how would I get along
without it
must write a poem
about it
go to the vacant lot
and shout it

makes me a better man
a human doing in a flesh can
a dandy in a pile of sand
a mudpie with two eyes
and two hands
a strange man
in an increasingly
toxic
land