Halle Berry Caught in Disneyland Without Makeup - Sandra Anfang

[Larry Robinson]

Halle Berry Caught in Disneyland Without Makeup
 
Imagine my excitement
the fire in my blood
as my greedy fingers click through to the photo,
a lead story on this end-of-August Saturday,
the trees so dry they cannot cry
for want of tears.
America,
we need more news like this!
Forget the poisoning of bees by the billions
or their connection to our own mortality.
Forget the plight of millions
living on the streets
sans food, sans work, sans medicine.
Give us more serial killers, inflated to hero size
project their likenesses on every billboard
teach their names as school yard jump rope rhymes.
Pen graphic novels around them
etch them on video game platforms around the world.
Forget the melting ice caps
rain forest decimation
the mounting molestations by pedophile priests
the commerce of women around the globe.
Serve us more Donald Trump, please
with extra vitriol spewed from blanched lips
the small American flag smirking from his lapel.
And please, keep them coming
those photos of celebrities who dared to do the unthinkable:
leave their mansions without the shield of makeup.
 
	- Sandra Anfang