Only Temporary

why do they come?

for the same reason

why he comes, or

so he thinks

they must come for the money,

but they aren't on the verge,

aren't facing imminent default

and who would have thought

familial provision would have

involved dealing with

hostile takeover?

but that's how fucked up

reality is

dragon ladies with pea-sized

brains have more power than

men who refuse to play

political games

of course, the ones who are

professional are considered

unprofessional by the

so-called expert professionals,

the ones who exploit their

expertise on the unwilling

that is their job and they

always have a job to do

and that job is to

f**k with the

trench fighters

they are just dragons

in lizard costumes,

ugly creatures that

hide the fugly creature

beneath

and he wonders,

maybe a bookend

existence in this

concrete honeycomb

may be the way to be

while the suicide fire

rages someplace else

and yet bookends can't 

provide for their families

while thick-skinned folks

can and do any which

way and how

this life is only temporary