The Depression
my brain is overwhelmed
with portraits of the absent Benjamin Franklin’s
along with the buried William McKinley’s
so immensely, that messages to my nervous system
change my skin from an inanimate pale
to a swamp green
as the acidic lumps of goo
similar to Gerber’s baby food
burn its way up my throat’s stream
but i swallow it all back
if i had the power there would no longer be
nothing that can come up or be said
to make my troubles a thing of the past
i don’t have the devices to search for a job
let alone search for how to live
because every man is not a king
the richer trade in Mercedes for Rolls Royces
leaving me with no gas to on which to
even run my body
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