POETRY: Cereal Killer

breakfast beast.
morning monsters.
choke rings and
other things
to make your
wakeup call
a duel and die
command
to stand tall
and take it all,
like a woman
or a man.
defenders and
pretenders,
girls and boys
against the wall
to meet the day
the way all masters
of the universe
would do, were they
anything like you.