Hate Mail

It comes to you in the post the first day you’re born certified and normalized your invoice of sale in Christmas cards sent you while you’re at school authorized, depersonalized let’s all hope you do not fail It falls on your doormat with this months bill all categorized stipulated usage default and handed to you in a paycheck for your signed over hours the pursuit of your debt for anonymous profit It sashay’s up behind the cashier at the bank charges you interest on the money you once had counting up your digital invisible social rank it puts food on the table for children, husbands and wives but cuts off the power and starves hungry mouths and scorns you as homeless with all the overdrawn credit of your lives It comes by email and television to by government tax on the cash that you earn with all the payments you make to keep you in line running in circles just to survive hate mail slaps you at every corner you turn it sneaks up behind you to bleed you dry and leaves you in a coffin and wondering why It arrives in the post the moment you’re born when your mother is charged for the doctors concern dehumanized and centralized the digital conundrum of fake lives you’ve been drafted into an army of monetary lies no choice your permission was never asked for just the recipient of hate mail that’s shoved through your door