According to Hopeless

(This is still a work in progress)



The icecaps melt while our hearts freeze

and Global Chilling sets in.

Spotted owls are as endangered as kind words

in a forest of evergreens and bigotry.

Some souls die unsaved, but by all means

save your guns.

I’ll use the First Amendment to shoot you in the heart,

then the Second Amendment to shoot you in the head.

Strangely enough,

with all our social consciousness…

we are morally knocked out.

I would say, “Run for your life.”

But where is a poor refugee to go these days?

Walked a few blocks to the church

there on Sherman Way,

trying to find some answers.

Better answers were found across the street.

in a plate of rice and beans.

I watched my laundry spin

on the corner of Reseda and Wyandotte.

Those were my last four quarters to spend

before the Four Horsemen arrive.