if it's not just us

if it's not just us



i imagine
if we thought the entire known universe
revolved around us
and the strings of our purse
and no one else
we'd have to
feel better not worse then those unfortunate few
the ones without the views
living in
only their worn out shoes.

 
but we're special
and we're sacred and stuff
like that
we pull rabbits out of magical hats
so we pat each other
on our radio-active backs
cooing our way
into story books and fables of late night movie tales
where
g. i. ho's morph into the blows
it takes
to make men feel like real men
as all the while the real estate you so boldly defend
is fought over
again and again and again
all because
as the third grader someone mentioned
you and your pencil dick 
should
take your act on the road.


and
everyone now knows
the 
ridiculous notions
you've been dying for.
and who you've been calling compatriots
are nothing more
than over priced whores.
doing the bidding of the power mad
pretending nobility 
is something worth living for.
when all we've become expert at
is
burying our children.





sjw 05/21/17 inspired at this very moment in time by the latest of recycled excuses.




from the 'bewitched series' of poems