glance, i do onto the motor
as it turns over i hear a loving caster
spinning it’s top and as i can’t seem to remember
i don’t let the hopelessness into my body
i don’t know the sporadic additives in my soup
if i could say them by name, maybe it would be easy
know when i’m not speaking much
however hard i break into pieces
i know my heart tethers will bring me back together
my heart tethers will bring me back
my tender heart truly heavy
in these classrooms which do need money
classrooms of working people
classrooms that are not funded by government
or corporations or large donors
they’re funded by people like me
i sneer at a random older man
indirect communication from the hovering manager
got to get it out of here
lay it out to look at it and know it
don’t deserve the treatment, she says
but i know of some damn smart people
i look at the bugs on the ground and we laugh
laugh at the ignorance of power
the desperate joke of power
funny when you put it together