Means To An End

in elementary school they used to give scratch n’ sniff stickers they used to give not only gold stars, but all the stars of the kid-done-a-good-job rainbow (my favorite was the purple)--- and back then, this was beautiful, much like all the myths, legends & downright lies that are fed to us when we are children, these little stamps of approval made the time go by in a positive fashion--- but outside the elementary school where the wolves run rampant, there are no rewards for being “good’--- there are no stars for helping others there are no scratch n’ sniff stickers of any kind for “following the law”--- the best you can hope for is to go one more day without being harassed by the police, without being harassed by the feds or the military, without being lied to by politicians or raped financially by bankers & other snakes who crawl amongst us in the deep grass--- bosses & supervisors swarm like locusts & illness rears its face quicker than you might of thought it would--- it’s only one path it’s only one way to go it’s only a means to an end.