on the road today the sky was gray
noticed the ground and the litter all around
symbolic I thought of the things we've bought
and soon thrown away - good only for a day
or a minute or hour quickly going sour
because they don't fit so we hastily omit
them from the scene so they won't be seen.

the felonious offender whom the courts render
refuge for their error or our version of terror
the crippled or the old too difficult to behold
or to find a way to help them stay
among the young, the beautiful and the dutiful
those with skin too dark or some other mark
or trait making them differ and our necks stiffer.

how naturally we refuse to BE with our refuse.

02/10/2002

Posted on 02/10/2002
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