the planned community

keeping the rest of us locked out

the community planned is the building

of the little kingdoms

all equipped with their walls &

if they could afford it, get the permits,

you know they’d have a moat

to beat the band---

no doubt jealous of the

richer, whose money has lead them out

to the international waters

so they can have their islands away

from the laws that f**k the rest of us,

no doubt jealous of the richer,

who fly up to the space stations,

under the guise of a special space endeavor,

making a new place to live,

sketching out the new empire

so as to avoid the radiation poisoning &

inevitable mutations that the rest of us will

get to cash in when the

nukes come a flying

left & right

from one madman to the next---

with white picket fences &

strict notions of behavior,

with a neighborhood watch

lined inside with rifles declared just under the

2^nd (while still paying private security---

can’t have enough guns after all),

this is the wave of somebody’s future,

just not yours or mine.