of wool and ignorance

of wool and ignorance

A Poem by William James McPhee

they won't even stop and read
what i have written...
  as if the problems of the world
  do not concern them and their
  fanciful suits made of the
                          purest wool...
 
i laugh at their ridiculous thousand
dollar purchases
  ... wearing a sheep's a*s hair
  proudly, as if this assinine display
  of power were worth more than the
  ragged clothes which allow rats to
                   bite my skin at night...
 
those nights when I crouch under my
  sign and feel protected regardless
  of the blood which leaks from my
                               legs and side.
 
the end of the world is coming soon
  and the miserable masses echo on
  as though jesus
                               will save them.
 
 
 
but he won't.
 
would that they'd read...
           listened, even...

© 2009 William James McPhee


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