equity will come
marching shouting
with a list of demands
fist in air
no more
enough
not enough
right to life
right to work
workers rights
peoples rights
shouting no more
enough
not enough
it will come
wrested at cost
it will not come
quietly after waiting
if you are full
the hungry matter less
than if you are hungry
then you understand
the hunter does not understand
the game just the hunt
if the hunter becomes game
he may develop an overstanding
of breath still
invisible storm
all around the smell
of death as familiar as
the memory of mothers milk
this overstanding requires demonstrations
of understanding sheep
know they must survive but they know
they know not all are blind
deaf & dumb is a survival technique
grown in the belly
where one understands
children must be fed
the house must be warmed
there must be a house
jobs are not the enemy
bosses can be
bleeding ones labor like leeches
tethering you by your need
because there are doctor bills
teeth that need straightening
life that calls
on flickering screens 60 inches
in rented homes working on
the American Dream which may
be sleeping dead require a higher credit
score more zeros than
minimum which does not
support even the minimum
not even a down-payment on the
dream can’t even be deferred
from where you are standing
you begin to understand maybe
it was a lie from the beginning
so building a better dream
requires dancing it from sheep
growing overstanding
momentum building number
growing shouting loud enough to
wake the world because
the say no flags only currency
money changers run the temple
capitalism is expert at making
its enemies into itself so
as the center of babel goes
so does the world
May Day we set aside
the muzzle of needing to survive
seize the day across the
globe to remind us we are not
alone awake not all are sheep
not all sheep are asleep
some see shaking off necessity for
one day to march a new dream
down streets out loud in the
day time saying we know
we know we know that nothing
will be given them that got got
its important not to get got
if you a have not we know
bills must be paid
survival is the plan but not the imperative
we know we know
equity will come
marching shouting
with a list of demands
fist in air
screaming
no more
enough
not enough
no more
