The hideous demon monster baby
is thinly veiled
and wants no part of this.
I’m in fashion now, it croaks,
flashing its bad eyes
and leaving its trail of slime.
I’m in fashion now and have no time
to appear
except in visions of magazine racks
at train stations
where it can be seen
for $4 or $5 or
the price of a pack of gum
at certain ends of the earth.
Marilyn Rauch Cavicchia 
This one is insistent and scary! Vivid.
Thanks! Did you get the pop culture reference? If not, then I’m glad to know that it works even without it. 🙂
No, I didn’t get the reference (I’m sort of a pop-culture illiterate), but I figured out pretty easily that the poem takes (maybe a horror-film?) character and sends it on a new journey.
🙂 The reference is to Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, who took turns playing a character on the sitcom Full House and have since gone into fashion and are not appearing in a current revival of the show.
Aha! I have so much to learn.