grande (non) fata morgana, please.

a caffeine induced phantasmagoria of life:
of glasses half full and of minds half empty,
of feline spines encasing feminine guise,
of walking skeletons starved for attention,
of all you can eat and of pedicured feet.
regrets for the undone, regrets redone, and those done regretting.

of rubber and tools and electric machines,
of brain and mirco and aqueous waves,
of inspiration, of pain and of glorious dreams,
of the old, of the future and of modern day slaves,
of the man, of she-story, of remarkable progress,
of the plan, of restraint, and of growth, egregious.

of penchants for pain and sachets of patchouli,
of schemas brokered and of images bought and maintained
of market price, of retail value and gross domestic coquetry.
and the true effect of language: profuse universal mondegreen.