Thursday, September 25, 2008
Most Of Us (from "A Slip Of The Tongue")
will never know what it is like
to have a million dollars.
and yet we will watch television
as handsome men and
plastic women
squander and fight over
bags of money
as if it were ever deserved.
we will count pennies and squeeze them
until they squeak
and fret ever having to buy
groceries.
we will take terrible jobs because
there is an opportunity to
earn more.
we will buy alcohol
or jewelry or
gamble
as if this could make it all
better.
we will sit in dark rooms and try to sleep
as the world around us
continues on.
and then, one day,
someone will rise from this terrible nightmare
and break away from this lifestyle;
this person will rise like the phoenix
in flames –
leaving us all
leaving us to
our
mundaneness.
to have a million dollars.
and yet we will watch television
as handsome men and
plastic women
squander and fight over
bags of money
as if it were ever deserved.
we will count pennies and squeeze them
until they squeak
and fret ever having to buy
groceries.
we will take terrible jobs because
there is an opportunity to
earn more.
we will buy alcohol
or jewelry or
gamble
as if this could make it all
better.
we will sit in dark rooms and try to sleep
as the world around us
continues on.
and then, one day,
someone will rise from this terrible nightmare
and break away from this lifestyle;
this person will rise like the phoenix
in flames –
leaving us all
leaving us to
our
mundaneness.
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