Donezetti's Borgeia In the Key of C
black phantom shadows -
(human beings)
aromas do float
but are rarely seen
check out the scent on the putrid, muted
breeze - busted-up blood tragedy - so many
people trapped - flat in the middle of a Kafka dream
people are fine with the all night whine - the sirens
sound like Donizetti's Borgeia in C - the street has
lost its funky-monkey mind - won't listen to a melody
in any other key
maximize a siren's highest boost -
play the wail in C - it will finds a
place to roost - the people love to listen
to melodic wailing melodies in C
mister dumpster's full tonight
as nighgtime dippers drop from sight
safer hipper dippers dip at morning light
while crack-head harlot dippers
wed to their head - after smokin' crack - can
disappear at noon and end up dead -
like poor Lizzie crack-head - dippin' to get fed
Lizzie takes her dive in dumpster number nine
lunch in the city be a pity not to dine in a loaded
dipsy-dumpster where the food tastes fine
but Lizzie leaned far and fell right in - but no
greedy harlot at the bottom of the bin - 'cause
squirmy little wormies ate Lizzie and her sin
bright badge's shine
on a Saturday night
uninformed authority
on famine and blight
people never look
a beat cop in the eye
no matter what the truth
or street wise lie
street people know
the bureaucratic game
are dirty little shake-downs
of multitudinal shame
you don't talk to cops
you don't give your name
you never let a cop
be director of the game
day to day gravity can cause great pain - on paralyzed,
gutter-bound people in the rain - better stand guard
over precious cityways - Mammon's dimmin' down -
seen its better days - when the harsher haze of poverty
was hidden in the maze of interlocking alleyways where
shrouded safe in darkness - the furry vermin plays
Copyright © Tom Mcmurray | Year Posted 2018
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