@ 4:49, on a snow-day, following people

and then it just
stopped.
or,
i stopped & it kept
going;
find myself on the
outside;
the side where i thought
the most good
was to be done, but now
conscience/conscious crashed w/
capitalism
& i’m somehow on the run;
running backwards
away from my past
trying to change my
present
in hope the future
brings dreams;
because the 1st
gave hope misinterpretations &
somehow gave light
to this matrixed reality;
10 years past optimistic
thought
only spring chickens
start new businesses
not old ducks;
every a-hole has a resume
& breaks are given
to illiterate children—
love hip-hop?
cultivate categories of
culture
like slots in cash
registers; but
b.a.’s give change
of washington’s,
not franklin’s
and facebook
quote/ unquote
sold its soul
to a bank that was bailed-out
but now has billions
to spend?
somethin’ ain’t addin’ up,
someone ain’t addin’ right…..
no one thinks deeper
than a twitter
tweet.

©2011 C. Barbee