NEVER KNEW HOW

FAR THE REACH

Never knew how far the reach

From childhood dreams

To todays’ trifles and traumas

Lost in the jungle of money

Seeing the banana-eaters

At the top condo floor

Step over refuse humans

Down on 3rd Avenue

Our delicious restaurants guarded

By off duty gunmen and derelict junkies

Sprawled in a mutual psychic embrace

One band beating the drum

The other hallucinates on dope

Psychotic episodes bleaching from the brain

Intruders have taken over

Another human frame

Ask a passer-by –

How are you feeling?

Can you trust justice?

And what do they say? – These “People”

Welcome to the political aisle

Shopworn redundancies on your right

Polemic incendiaries on your left –

Choose carefully

Losers don’t like reminders.

Tread gently on the losing ideology

Talk about one issue

And then drink a toast to co-operation.

Matter is equal.

It is the spirit that inspires.

Take that billionaire old man

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