Phew

GONE BUT SOMEHOW STILL HERE

The girl is long gone

but we still hear her echo

in her song

about how I should be stronger

while the coffee I crave

the taste has made me a slave

and the callus on my elbow

whispers for skin conditioner

and I go over all the things

I don't like about myself

but what the hell I am who I am

this is the reality the rest is sham

if the human robot is made

will it need a passport

and have to name its mother

and where she was born for a birth certificate

thinking of all the old vets

living on the streets

having lost their picture Ids

un persons of some version

as the MSM says isn't awful

and then tries to sell us insurance

for protection, protecting what

you have to be dead to collect

or if you watch sports

why not a gas guzzling monster truck

to sit in the 14mph parking lot

on the way to work

while you text like some jerk

of perhaps have a “pop” or four

and T bone a SUV

full of kids

and take up the time of the courts

possibly getting bail

and court cases stretching into the future

no justice no peace

things that bug my ass

the wars of class

and realize

we are the losers

film to night with the Jackster

still don't know where

perhaps Jack can find it

on his phone so there

Ciao, JWL © 08/01/2016