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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

Find a true spot in the sun, unadorned                                           200917.1

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