They stabbed a guy here for $3 yesterday
the paper said the kids who did it were looking for gas money
and answers to questions never asked
action news shoves a microphone in the victim’s face
they want to know how he feels,
even as he bleeds to death in the middle of a busy intersection
where the people are too preoccupied with their phones and coffee to care
the family wants to know “why” and
the camera’s eye turns to the audience
who has already changed the channel in search of the next fix (more…)
I do not want my children to establish meaningful relationships with corporate mascots. If they do, I will not be responsible for it. I do not want that blood on my hands. I do not wish to treat them like little drug addicts that need their next fix from a pimp in clown makeup. (more…)
Sometimes you run
from certain things
until you look back years later
and realize that it’s only your shadow following you
step for step, line for line
mocking every move you make
Every place is the exactly the same
this wasteland of vacant strip malls
over watered lawns guarding toothpick castles
and pile after pile of useless products
rotting under the sun and moon (more…)
They are shootin’ mother fuckers here
like it’s going out of style
and the people cheer!
two more added to the toll this A.M.
the summer heat has not yet begun
but the eggs are already frying on the sidewalk
amidst the White chalk outlines and under the watch of overseers
on horses, action cameras and microphones
and the almighty eye of the church downtown (more…)
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