THERE ARE

by Randall Rogers

SATAN STREETS,
TO GUIDE YOU

SATIN STREETS
MANHATTAN SHEETS
AND
ALLEYS PAVED
WITH FOOL’S GOLD
-THAT’S AMERICA,
THE USA.
JUST TO INFORM
YOU DREAMING WOULD-BE
IMMIGRANTS – OR SHIT HELP US YOU TERRORISTAS
IF YOU’SE ALL IS STILL
GOT THE NOTION
ALREADY DONE PAID THE SMUGGLERS
TO GET YOU AND YOURS
ILLEGALLY OR, HELL, LEGALLY,
INTO THIS FINE
ALWAYS BEEN
ALWAYS WILL BE
FLAWED BUT GREATEST
NATION - AND PEOPLE –
ON THIS PRISON-PLANET
HELL
Y’ALL CALL EARTH.

BECAUSE NOWADAYS,
AS THE SOCIAL PHILOSOPHER TYPES
TENURED OR NOT,
ARM-CHAIR
OR ACTUALLY READ A BOOK
AND – LORDY, LORDY - ACTUALLY FINISHED IT
LAST YEAR
IF YOU IS
THIS PERSON YOU ARE
NOT,
I REPEAT NOT
DEFINITELY OUT
NOR IN
THE CLUB.

C’MON
JUST PUT A LITTLE
VAPOR
IN YOUR GAS/ASS
AND KEEP LOOKING
AND THINGS STILL
IN THE END
AND ON
THE WAY
MOST OR ALL, REALLY,
WILL DEFINITELY
NOT BE ALRIGHT.
NOR EVEN NEAR SO.
WHY?
BECAUSE YOU LIE!
AS YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD – NO - FORCED,
HAD IT CRAMMED
THE DAMN TRUTH
OR WHAT THEN NOR NOW OR FUTURE PAST
WHAT PASSED AS IT
AND WAS
IN TURN
PASSED ON TO,
DEVELOPING THE WHOM YOU THINK IS THE FAKE
AND SPURIOUS REAL
YOU,
OF THE WHO WHAT WHERE WHEN HOW AND HOW MUCH/MANY
ANSWERS
TO DEFINE POOR LITTLE OLD YOU.
BOO-HOO-HOO.
AH SHIT AGAIN?

HELP! DINGOS, AH...NO...
-- VAPOUROUS GASES RAPED MY DAUGHTER(S)!!!
NAME?
WHY THE NAME’S MARY
THE VIRGIN MARY
JOE TOLD THE DETECTIVES.
REPEATEDLY.
UNTIL THEY BELIEVED.