Frank Guglietta Poet Free verse

Smothered

cement is always 
same,
producing the same 
answer,

executing the habitual
formula

~~

cement is
everywhere. 
cement produces the 
same minions. 

what lays on the cynical surface 
is constant. 
cars drive,
buildings ascend, 
buildings demolished 

~~
 
you are born 
to look down,


look down,
look straight,

but never look 


up.

Look down, as 
your man made 
machine works.

You are a stock,
a stock that never 
loses value.
A stock that will 
produce. 

Look down as 
you are feasted on. 
stare down to your
pay 


~~

Fertile elegant land 
is now raped with 
 all the same. 



look down, 
to the insanity 
repetitions.

look down as you are 
instilled to,

while 

the rich men smoke
big cigars to their 
monopoly game, 

~~
Stretch your strained 
neck,
throw your head 
up.

See the blue and clouds 
and stars, 

Feel the sun,
see the bird gazing across you. 

~~

to the ocean, 
follow me

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