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POEM -- "Bankrupt" by Thomas Herr


Bankrupt

By Thomas Herr

Frowning family faces
Babies wrapped in only the best material
Double-stitched and inventoried
Amortized

Frowning families facing
A mortgaged mommy brutal facial
Weekly conciliatory texts from daddy number one.
Day trading his fatherhood away
He stands in shame in the long credit line

And all the While great bluesmen
Stand on the corner uninterrupted
Thrusting their shaking soiled hands
In the faces of the starving artists
And Daddies

And all the While world class poets
Trade in their souls
For nothing but empty promises
Using microphones needles and crack
And Daddies

Helpless as their numbers dwindle
They look for someone to listen
Or even join the ranks
But each and every day trade sucks all souls dry

Mortgaged lives

Bankrupt souls

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1 comment:

  1. "And all the While world class poets
    Trade in their souls
    For nothing but empty promises
    Using microphones needles and crack
    And Daddies"

    ......dang......
    dang, dang, dang
    ......dang......

    all we, even those who do not identify themselves as poets have hearts which bleed from the rending of child from father...

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