contrast between
life and war
birth and disease
a father lies awake
fighting his own sanity
raise a kid or battle brains
dawn a fucking cloak
and rattle chains
take your sickle with you
when you go grocery shopping
forty strollers rust
in a field of dead poppies
the difference between
you and i is automatic minds
and conditioned lives
dangerous lives
and complacent lies
lies lies lies
lies lies lies.
Lies Lies lies.
Lies
Lies
Lies
six miles away past the opiate fields
the banker mortician
dine on appropriate meals
of asyphixation and taxes
they belch as they eat
the minute hands and maggots
get stuck in their teeth
i’m walikng razor edges,
you’re trading two by fours
i’m leaning over edges to catolog razor roars.