out there
today,
the world
is making sense
to a lot of people,
people that have
no use
for heroin,
people that have
never needed to
rub their
minds out
at the end of
a day,
people that
frown at
backwards sex
or backwoods
desperation,
people that
will never
question
the sun.
those for whom
the wheels and palms
are greased,
fast tracked and
kid gloved,
who slide from
prestigious home
to corner office
with toothful grimace,
those who learn to
tie ties
and join clubs
and avoid
anomalies,
those whose credit
is good
and remains
good
while the coins
ejaculate from the spout
eternal,
for whom
mortgages
are
no problem,
trophy wives
are
no problem,
retirement funds
are
no problem,
police officers
are
no problem,
courts of law
stand down,
food is never
scarce,
friends come over
for dinner parties,
second cars second
houses second boats
are
an afterthought,
nine to six
is
as natural
as breathing.
coiffed people,
jewelried people,
awards ceremony people,
meet and mingle people,
walk the plank people,
no questions asked
and no questions permitted,
no rocking of the boat
my children are at play,
children for whom
the world will
one day
make sense
as well.
