everywhere
in the
city
it cost
a pretty penny
to
maintain
a
standard that only a few aeons before
had
seemed attainable
acquire
squatters rights
in a
decent slum
and the
first thing you know
here
come the homosexuals
with the
quick dart and thrust
of their
paintbrushes
obsessive
butterfly shades
well yes it
does look better
but.............
and then
the trendy
nouveau
riche
bourgeoisie
flatulent
parvenu
who
discard a twentydollar cigar
into the
gutter
after
three puffs
because
they don't know how to smoke it
inflating
rents
driving
the
price
of a
piece of property
up
past all
grasp of reason
of the
universal man
real
estate developers
quick to
exploit
as a
buzzard hawk
senses
carrion
have
vanity pieces
written
into the local rag
which
would sell
its
grandmother
for the
price of a barrel of ink
the
ghost of herr goebbels must chuckle
when the
city "relocates"
the
homeless interlopers
as god
bows to Mammon
they
close the place at sundown anyhow
and
padlock the tearoom doors
but the
paddyrollers will shoot you
if you
don't watch out
and you
will not pass go
and they
will not go to jail
and they
can collect $200
"administrative
leave"
and
blood will out
while
our future
is
pissed out upon the street
$100
REWARD
LIONEL
RUNAWAY
SCARS ON
BACK AND ARMS
AND
PSYCHE
METAL
RING IN NOSE
LAST
SEEN WEARING
BLACK
LEATHER JACKET
WITH
PENTAGRAM ON BACK
AND AN
ATTITUDE
and the
congregants
hire
their preachers
to wax
so highly
in their
chapels
of jesus
the redeemer
not a
social
activist
among them
while
the people
cheeer
the garish colors
of the
gladiators
in their
temples
along
the platte
and they
will all go to heaven
in coral
gables
and I
will search for new slums
each
more scarce than the last
i think
of the land
i so
swiftly left as a youth
and of
the arbor with the sweet purple grapes
the
gospel according to saint john
chapter
eleven
verse
thirty five
daniel
wenger
2/97
Re posted from Jan. 12, 2012
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