Fleeced

Stood in line at Walmart and I thought about

taking out my eye

with something sharp 

something rusty  

sharp set of fleecing shears 

something that would hurt hurt hurt 

as much as it hurts me 

to see humanity  

standing in stinking rows 

filthy rows 

stinking up the pharmacy  

clutching discount soap 

and gossip rags 

and their carefully collected coupons 

standing like sheep 

in baaa baaaa rows 

just waiting for the shear man 

to come along 

strip them to the skin 

and me with my daily groceries 

carefully collected 

(f**k the coupons) 

watching it happening 

wanting to hurt myself for standing there 

a f*****g fool 

among all the other fools 

getting fleeced 

but 

there is no more wool 

Reviews

[Fabian G. Franklin]

The followers shall always be followers and those that choose their own path are misfits to them, alienated and ostracized for entertaining and emphasizing critical thinking and adjusting their perspectives accordingly. Science likes to think it has all the answers but it is disproven on a daily basis. They once thought they knew the universe, how vain an assumption is that when they don't even know the planet they live on? The physicists are coming to understand that creation isn't playing by their made up rules. But self harm does no good for anyone. Self-doubt, however, I think, can be more laudable than c**k-sure confidence. An interesting composition and a pleasure to read, I enjoyed. F.

[Laz K.]

this reads like a modern oedipus realizing that he, unknowingly, was complicit in bringing about the plague, and so he blinds himself. it also said, however, that that is the moment he gains true insight.