young people
decide the future
older people
control it
nobody really wins,
this much I know
for certain
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young people
decide the future
older people
control it
nobody really wins,
this much I know
for certain
most things I imagine, ultimately get dismissed
by someone very familiar to me,
yet stranger than any fiction I’ve ever written
Business men
in business suits
pass on by
their busy route
They criss and cross
jump high and juke
other business men
in business suits
With cups of Joe
briefcase they carry
and hurry not
to miss the ferry
Across the harbor
to and fro
the business men
must surely go
To wheel and deal
contracts that steal
business men
of all their zeal
So if and when
you pass a suit
try not to block
their busy route
They’ll huff and puff
and grunt and scowl
walking fast
through you like fowl
For if they stop
they’d surely die
in business suits
and business tie
So watch yourself
next time you walk
and mark my words
in business talk
Do let them pass
or make them late
your time shall come
to seal their fate
Choose what you will
whichever suits
the business men
in business suits!
confidence starts with the con,
the rest is easy
how do I put this lightly,
perhaps an anvil will do
oh, but I’m always the coyote
you speedy devil, you
can crush me in an instant
you can split me into two
as I run on air to catch up
you know just what to do,
so tear away the painting
post no bills up on the wall
I’m your brick and mortar baby
we know either way I’ll fall
in their confident voices, I hear only ignorance
but than again
my fly has been down all morning —
naturally
you’ll always be either
too skinny, or too fat
if you’re looking through the eyes
of another,
at least that’s what I saw,
it’s what they tell me
all the time
look a little less
in the mirror,
and a little more
inward,
it’s funny, telling all this
to my reflection
broken doesn’t necessarily mean
waiting to be fixed
if a child falls
in Bushwick, Brooklyn
but there is no one around to hear them
do they make a sound?