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
Copyright © Colin Mitchell Williams | Year Posted 2018
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