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all in one day (Free verse) by peaceseeker
"spare some change ma'am"
i kept walking, and to my back
the old gray fat man said,
"okay, well have a good day anyway"
the peace man sits wishing
passing cars peace
and i found a note on
the windshield of my car
it said "tell that to Osama Bin Laden"
(in referece to my anti-war bumper stickers)
and I noticed the
"military solutions are problems"
sticker was especially
frayed at the edges
at a gas station,
a local teenager yelled obsenities
at a toddler
(because she locked her out of the car)
and at a stop light,
an out-of-state black man
pulled to the side
of the road rage to get out
and yell at the hick
in a humongous pick-up truck
"hey, you want a piece of me, man?
cutting me off like that!
you white trash, want a piece of me?"
and my Jackson, Mississippi
play-boy, armed and dangerous,
carrying a knife, hocked a lugie on
an SUV (ironically with intentions
of being pro-earth)
a big man started to get
out of the SUV, until he
saw the look on my friend's
face, and thought better
of the idea - good thing,
too, because my friend thinks
he's the "real thing" and he
would have thought nothing
of slitting his throat in
"self-denfense" and you know what?
my friend can leave his shoes
and his weapons at the door
the next time he comes to
pick up his cash savings for rent
and the schizo guy walks down
the street like he's flying
talking out-loud to himself,
as i walk past, the other way.
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