The Bone Factory

[interview the third]

safety is our first concern
he coughed
at me
on our tour of the lab

we make synthetic bone
2$ a gram
20,000 a bucket

sometimes acid gets in
the batch
and an extra calcium
hops the train and we
scrap the whole
confounded
outfit

[someone sneezes and all I smell
is enough ammonia to wake the dead]

we’ve upped production fourfold
but no one’s biting
the rooskies are using Cow mandible
HQ is shutting us down

18 years in the lab
and now every job I shoot fer’s got
a long line of phd’s

I turn on the
tube and listen to some asshole
polytician
harp about
science & engineering

and I’m square on my ass
in a few…

…sorry kid but I’ll hafta
pass you up.

you’ll need a Masters to wash
slurry thru
this here bucket
of
stink.