I So Fed Up
for Hubert Alexander Ingraham

one thing to get rid of
filthy, nasty litter

must follow this
with getting rid of
filthy nasty people

pluck from among us
as if they were flower petals
all those persons

who do not love their country
who do not love themselves

garbage off the ground
off and out of
the waters of the harbor

how can we leave undisturbed
awful, evil persons

who pollute the air
fill the atmosphere
with smoke,
trash they burn against the law

or equally awful,
equally evil persons
who make thinking straight
impossible

music booming, pounding
artificial, abominable thunder

we subjected
to their clubs over us
we their hopeless,
impotent hostages

of these persons
of those persons

owners of what roars
what rattles, what backfires

these enemies of the state
enemies of the people

lets rid ourselves of these too
while we’re at it

aren’t we after
making a good impression

must uproot, must get rid of
whatever is dirty, nasty

any who would break the law
or drop it

but there are those
who do not just break the law

they pick it up and lick it down
and get away with it

we must cease letting them

these we must extract
like tooth, like teeth

which have been hurting us
too long


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2009
1:26 p.m. 04.04.09