Hustling and
bustling down city streets
these city
elites
beat
concrete in order to eat
the finest caviar
at least, in their dreams
reality is 80 hr weeks
sometimes one sleeps
at the desk,
like the one who sleeps
on 80 hour weeks
as an uber or lyft driver
ladder climber
the ladder falls
are these long hauls
worth the long falls
in
personal connections and ethics
which seem so easily to disappear
fake sales voice
replaces the one
your family knew so well
we fall into a well we can’t get out of
no lassie comin’
unless we can open our eyes
see the light at the edge of the cave
see the homeless man
see outside the bubbles
and the walls
we construct for ourselves
the wells are dark
but not insurmountable obstacles
because they are mostly in our head
