life on earth is all about

being pulled backward through a hedge


everybody demands action

everyone insists on any apology


and the ones they've wronged

can go to hell as far as they're concerned


well there's where you've gone wrong

with your race cards and your ethnic pride


each of us has been an aggressor or a victim

in one life or another


you have no special codicil with the divine

and your own sins have placed you in these postures


for a reason

a reason you'd ignore if you didn't like the reason


each of us will make another eat shit

for the most bogusly righteous reasons


but who wants to hear that?

who wants to face their own complicity in the matter?


none

none at all


life on earth is where we learn lessons we ignore

or take to heart wrongly as excuse for our evil


and life on earth will be our finish

where like animals we have no idea of the doom that awaits


but live in the moment of our hungers

pausing for a split second while we chew on remains


to gaze at the sunset

we don't understand...

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