Legendary Minds

Legendary minds

Strung out on cortisol

Sleepwalking, night-talking skeletons

Jolted awake by the electric semiconductor smog

All-nighters, drooping eyelid fighters

I am simply your guide

Not the writer

No time for inspiration

Caffeine induced perspiration

Drips on the brow of the great creation

The system that hastens

Corporate demise

Bug eyes, bursting out

Heads on the pikes of white picket fences

Choose life

This is the sacrifice

Not a blasphemous thought of vengeance

My intentions are clear

This is not a poem it’s an exposé

I yearn to reap the day 

When the vitriolic acid rain

Invisible eye strain

Hazy red marker fog of brain

Makes its way down the drain

I’ve seen,

Kids as thin as Lou Reed

And as arrogant too

Destroy themselves for the chance to heed

The call of the great roaring train to Grand Central Station

Piling up in traincars traincars traincars

Allen Ginsberg had the right idea

Here we are, fighting for a false idea

Imposed on us by someone else

Trapping us in our perception of what life should be

I weep in the fluorescent light

Overcome by the might

Of City Lights