We Slum Dwellers

We slum dwellers strive through arduous thistles of hardship We tough it out through the mere adroitness of apprenticeship We writhe morosely, carrying the world over our shoulders But we tussle toughly the travails like soldiers We're the slaves that bolster the aplomb of the upper crust The hapless mendicants whose ascendancy the haves must thrust The loyal ignoramuses that politicians use for their puissances The impoverished natives the government uses to seek aid for its juissances The kooky denizens that researchers scrutinate as a case study The inane old guard whom the civilized take as nerdy We sleep like foiled wolves and wake like champion lions We carouse in our wobbly shanties like they're our Zions We wade through the filthy excrement as our daily tracks These afflict no more, for we've in vain raised our flacks We accept to be the encumbrances the society discard to roaming sellers But we know behind the hurdles what we dream, we slum dwellers