Toxic

Toxic

A teenage girl
giggling, masturbating
to Britney Spears songs.
Fingers wet with
slick nail polish.

She leafs through
teeny-bopped magazines,
crushing on the next American Idol.

While

Mom and Pop sit
downstairs eating
tv dinners and watching
Bill O'Reilly hammer Jenna Jameson
and steal her porn tapes
for "research."

While

In the closet hall,
her brother rides
his best friend
to Brokeback Mountain.
His chaps leave a trail
of red marks
on his lover's skin.

Inside the house
the toxic lies
leave a poisonous residue
that will never be
broken