INTERVIEW WITH A WORK-RELEASE PRISONER WHO HUNGERS FOR A LOW-CARBON FOOTPRINT.

That’d help me w/ a getaway, correct?

although I’d hardly be lamming it barefoot—

—well—can I get a low-carbon footprint

in Asics or New Balance or Adidas?

& what about a low-carbon fingerprint?

that way, I could help myself to a few staples

(wallets, smart phones, laptops, etc.)

w/o implicating myself via CSI scenarios—

—well—I wonder if I’d need to water

my carbon footprints & fingerprints

to hydrate them, to carbohydrate them—

I work the highway & watch cubicle staffers

drive by in hybrids—if the world’d get

any quieter—well—it just might disappear.


[NaPoWriMo Sonnet #27.]