I am a consumer of:
steel
plastic
wood
paper
lead
fire
oil, water
gas
sugar, salt
chemicals I cannot pronounce
or know their value,
an unknowing consumer
duped, fooled, tricked,
blindfolded at the altar
of check out.

I also manufacture
shit, piss, semen, dandruff, tears,
blood, spit, snot, body odors
from all orifices and pits.

I will fertilize
the soil
with all my consumption
and manufacture.
Some scorekeeper
can keep the tally
of plus or minus
the worth of my existence.

But not today.
There’s another inning.
My bat. These words.