Before We Walk or Swim or Contemplate

Now, before we walk through

Plate glass windows or choose

To swim in barbed wire seas

Full of message in a bottle molotov cocktails

Served shaken like epileptic sailors

Upon catatonic cruiseships,

Let us all take a moment to

Contemplate the fragility

Of the landscape

Ego eggshells and the growing crevice

Between corrupt consciousness

And the evolution of the caterpillar

From larve to corporate whore.

And I say

And I say

And I say

A men.

Now, most of us never spend a day of our lives searching for anything more than our car keys or telephones

Like a television series stretched from one season to seven

The plot is sometimes lost amongst us all.

It takes a pretty face to shake the collection box and make the public smile while contributing

Taught with ideas that are bred to misrepresent, is it any wonder that the kid standing before the class is just target practice for rest.

Sickness, this city, this suburb, this small town sliding into the sewers

As the rivers roll and the mud flows and the gutters collect

Insurance checks that will never be cashed.

This is more of the obvious less

It is the lesson most left off the agenda last,

And I say

And I say

And I say

A men.