After Hours Ads

I swear this ad had its own heart of darkness to
cater concern to those mad-moms few who arrest
those who take lives in the crossroads and
do their killing without a clue.
Don’t drink and drive, the caption read
after the car on the screen was seen reeling 
around with a great speed down a lit street
like a raving fiend gone wheeling.

The tire’s high screech on the road harmonized
with the break yanked between a quick look
at the driver that took the lower mean
of yet another “dumber teen.”
The crash of metal—a collapse implosion
ensnares the car in its sharp grind heap
as the engine bursts with a loud explosion to
shock the old folk out of sleep!

The car then slomo wraps a worn out tree,
and you got to wonder how many times and takes
it took to frame the light right and glass flashes
with the blood upon the breaks.
And so the pale drunk is dashboard impaled
with a face all smashed in and bent and
somehow his car’s being further derailed as if
being by some conveyor sent!

And now his severed hand flies up all gored and
heaped on with fingers three, if you can believe,
and now I’m just sitting here getting bored
as his head begins to cleave!
What the fuck? I ask the muted screen just to
change the channel for a new recommend,
so a refreshing beer ad can grab the scene,
telling me to "bring a friend."

--Porter Daryl's Poems

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